” Scientists warn that the fast paced lifestyle of many Americans, especially college students, is damaging their perception of reality. This is just one of many reasons why this generation needs to slow down- because most are moving way to fast. According to a report out of the University of Southern California, the speed at which most receive news, the constant flow of action on television, the listening of one fast paced song after another and especially the micro blog are numbing the emotions of individuals.”
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Scientists warn that the fast paced lifestyle of many Americans, especially college students, is damaging their perception of reality. This is just one of many reasons why this generation needs to slow down- because most are moving way to fast.

According to a report out of the University of Southern California, the speed at which most receive news, the constant flow of action on television, the listening of one fast paced song after another and especially the micro blog are numbing the emotions of individuals.

If things are happening too fast, you may not ever fully experience emotions about other people’s psychological states and that would have implications for your morality, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang said.

According to the report, people can receive and process factual information rather quickly, but it takes much longer to evaluate deeper meaning regardless of the medium. When another message supplants the one being read in the news feed, or we transition from one action scene to another one cannot fully appreciate the emotional impact of what just happened.

Before a value judgment of good or bad is ever made most move on to the next object of their present reality. Instead the message is accepted-regardless of the content. No longer do people draw their own opinions, but they agree to one event after another in an almost apathetic way.

The solution to this problem is to slow down, but that doesn’t look like it will happen any time soon. Micro blogs, in their various forms, are increasing in numbers daily. Movies are becoming more violent, going from peak to peak avoiding the valley of falling action completely. Even radio has become victim to this hasty lifestyle.

More and more people, young and old, are becoming disenchanted with the reality as it doesn’t provide the constant change they’ve become accustom to. Many more have lost their ability to concentrate on the most mundane tasks for any extended period of time.

The adverse effects of being always on, always connected and always moving from place to place are hardly realized. People go from class, to work, to activity, to hobby, to social gathering, to the next big thing. The whole time we multitask looking for the next thrill every second of every day.

People don’t have time to think, to read, to laugh, to embrace or to stop and consider where they are going. One can tell you we’re not moving in a positive direction, but people cannot begin to realize this if they just keep going without regard to the world around them.

There is no longer any space in peoples’ lives to consider more than theirselves. While the world has not yet become as impersonal as the streets of the New York City, it is soon becoming that.

Lifestyle of moving from one high to another; from one task to another, is not sustainable. People should put the brakes on life, slow down and truly enjoy the present. The full experience of life is not found on the peaks of mountains, or the depths of valleys for that matter. It’s found on the journey though them with both highs and lows at a experienced at a more moderate pace.

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