Stop what you are doing,
put down your devices,
turn off whatever you are streaming
and look around you.
Take careful note of what you see,
inventory it if you wish.
Now use your mind is a Time Machine
imagine yourself right here
two hundred, then four hundred
and then a thousand years ago.
What do you see? How is that world
different from this one? Then imagine
you must remain there for an hour
or a day or a month or eternity.
Could you survive or would the isolation
and reliance on nature drive you mad?
Listen to the birds talking to each other
are they talking about you, how hard
you must look to them, why you are here
or do they bother to notice you at all.