Bombarded with ads

Ever get the feeling that you are bombarded with ads? From as soon as you wake up in the morning until you go to bed you feel tired and exhausted and this has a lot to do with being bombarded with advertisements. Even this hub has ads.

If you wake up to your radio alarm clock you are being hit by ads when you are in your slumber state of sleep. When you brush your teeth you can’t but help notice the glossy brand name on the side of the toothpaste tube, which is like a big advertisement. When you read your newspaper in the morning and pour your favorite cereal, you are hit with more ads.

This is a result from the commercial world we live in. Everything is for sale and every space is available for advertising.

One of the most magical things that you can do in your life is to take a vacation to escape the commercialism. Take a week off work with your partner and/or children and stay in the country for example. Go to a place where you have to work with animals or to a place where you have to get back to basics, like camping. If you stay in accommodation make sure there is no television.

After a week camping with no television, no radio, no newspapers, no internet and no telephones you will feel so refreshed, you will feel alive!

You don’t have to stay in total isolation as you could go and work on a farm. Learn new and exciting skills like how to saddle a horse or how to milk a cow. Getting away from that entire electronic media will give your life a kick start!

One of the saddest things about going away on a vacation which gets you away from it all is that you have to come back to the monotonous reality of ‘normal’ life. Your first experiences of this will be all the billboards along side the highways and roads which hit you like a fist to the eye.

Hollywood has explored this idea of getting away from digital and analogue media with comedy genres. But however funny or ridiculous the directors have tried to portray these life reversals the underlying statement in the movies do ring true. The moral to these stories are true in the fact that we don’t need all the electronics, commercialism and advertising to run our lives and we would all be much better off without it.