{"id":5595,"date":"2016-05-30T23:34:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T18:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5595"},"modified":"2016-05-30T23:34:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T18:04:48","slug":"vipassana-meditation-fomo-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=5595","title":{"rendered":"How I Found Joy in My Insignificance After 15 Days of Vipassana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span><\/p><\/div><p> \n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lmost everyone I know who has been to vipassana has claimed they\u2019ve done it to \u201cget away from it all\u201d; as a kind of short-term rehab for their spiralling <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/commodification-social-media-brand\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">social media<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> addictions. But that\u2019s never really been a problem for me. For years I\u2019ve been (only half) joking that my first order of business on becoming famous (like that\u2019s a given) will be to shut down all my personal social media accounts. A few years ago, I deleted a profile with a somewhat-influencer level of following \u2014 on a lark. Just to prove to myself that I wasn\u2019t tethered to my online existence in any meaningful way. This, coupled with my God-gifted aversion to most human contact, meant I was on no need for getting away from anything, really. If anything, I needed help <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">getting with<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> stuff.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And yet, I signed up for 15 days of self-imposed silence.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s 360 hours of zipping your trap, trying to look incrementally self-actualised. If there\u2019s one thing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/how-not-to-take-a-friggin-compliment\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">impostor syndrome<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> had left untouched in me, it was my confidence in my ability to get by with limited to no human interaction. It\u2019s embarrassing how cocky I was, going in. All of that bravado evaporated roughly 359 hours and 30 minutes before the end of the retreat. In the words of the wonderful John Green, \u201cCrap crap crap crap crap crap crap stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid crap.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So why was I undertaking this exercise in masochism anyway? Mine was a very particular and powerful addiction called \u201cThe Need for Control\u201d \u2013 a subset of the much-maligned FOMO. The thing that tortured me endlessly was not that there might be some wonderful experiences that the rest of the world might partake in while I was away, but that I had no way of knowing and therefore no control over what awaited me once I got out. One of the things my <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/first-person\/auroville-spirituality-forest-rave-party-2\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">meditation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> instructor \u2013 a former Burmese monk \u2013 keeps lecturing me about is to stop trying to control the narrative. I\u2019ve noticed that my need to manage people and situations so I\u2019m taken by surprise can sometimes get in the way of me actually <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">living<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> my life. And so, on the aforementioned instructor\u2019s insistence, I decided I\u2019m going to allow the universe to \u201csurprise (read: disappoint) me by heeding its signs\u201d.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When a friend declared that he was flying down a Bald White Guy (BWG) with impressive credentials and an obvious fondness for loose white robes to preside over a 15-day silent retreat at their farmhouse, I didn\u2019t need much convincing. And that\u2019s how I found myself in a large, temperature-controlled room with a dozen-odd ageing millennials somewhere on the outskirts of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/hindi-speaking-missing-mother-tongue-bangla-bengali-delhi\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delhi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Most silent retreats operate more or less on the same rules and structure: No speaking, even making eye contact is discouraged, and you could speak to an aide only in case of an emergency. No screens were allowed and a gong would be sounded at dawn to help recalibrate our circadian clocks to the light cycle. We ate four meals: a small cup of tea and exactly two biscuits at 6 am, lunch at noon, a light snack at 3.30 pm, and dinner at 7 pm sharp. The lights went out by 9 pm.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course, there was also a lot of meditation. The goal, BWG insisted, was not to keep the mind from wandering but to be mindful of its trajectory to observe the chaos within it without giving in to the desire of controlling the outcome. The silence was to help us feel every sensation within our bodies acutely. When you\u2019re forced to go deeper and deeper within the recesses of your <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gastronomy\/how-to-survive-as-a-sugar-conscious-gujarati\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">consciousness<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> instead of seeking distractions outside it, while simultaneously being robbed of the power to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">do<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> anything about any of it, it\u2019s like being trapped in a hell designed personally for you. For the first four days, I truly did feel my mind had turned on me and had become my own worst enemy. I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d survive. I\u2019d end each day thinking, \u2018Tomorrow, they\u2019re going to have to wheel me out of here feet-first, on a stretcher.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>FOMO, is an inherently egotistical fear, with the belief that our existence matters so much that missing out on something is a travesty.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It wasn\u2019t just thinking of the worst-case scenarios about everything <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/marriage-depression-therapy-relationships\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">unhappy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in my life, it was convinced that each one of those scenarios had come true. I was sure that all the editors I wrote for would dump me, someone would publish a book with the same exact premise, plot, and structure as mine, Standard Chartered would collapse like PMC, and my savings would evaporate overnight, my <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/millennials-naukri-why-you-need-to-stop-chasing-your-dream-job\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dream job<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> would suddenly become available and they\u2019d offer it to someone else because I wasn\u2019t around to take their calls, someone I loved would die, and nobody would be able to get ahold of me. And all of this was going to happen in the 15 days that I was gone.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the first four days, all I did was sob during the days and howl through the night. When I went in, I thought my biggest discomfort was going to be physical \u2014 sitting ramrod straight for hours at a stretch without allowing the soreness and other niggling aches to break my concentration. It wasn\u2019t. The hardest part was to allow your most paralysing fears to sit alongside the knowledge that you don\u2019t have all the solutions. That\u2019s a tough lesson for someone as used to control as me.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s funny how you learn to value human interaction when you\u2019re forced in situations without any. I, who prided myself on feeling mostly disdain for the incessant directionless chatter, found myself <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/spontaneity-impulsive-personality-happiness\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">craving<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it. Right then, I would have given anything to peruse through the half a dozen photographic records of a friend\u2019s daily life that she insists on furnishing on Facebook.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The good news is, it gets better, and keeps getting better. By Day Five\/Six, my brain had entered a state of acceptance. There\u2019s no way to describe its journey after that point \u2014 its intensely personal and unique. But I will tell you this: the tortured thoughts will still erupt, but you learn to observe them as if you\u2019re floating above them, which forces them to drift away after a few minutes of lingering hopefully instead of wrapping their tentacles around your consciousness. By the tenth day, I was positively <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/modern-day-guide-gandhigiri\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tranquil<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. When it was time to leave, I was sorry it was time to rejoin the world.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rejoining the world was thoroughly disorienting. I had gotten used to a slower pace, and of not being bombarded with information from every direction, confusing my senses and sending my mind reeling. After a fortnight of no news, no external stimulation, being thrown back into the real world was a shock. It was also a humbling experience. Literally, not one thing of consequence had changed while I was away. The world hadn\u2019t come to a screeching halt. My editors had missed me, but they were neither wringing her hands in despair over my absence, nor furiously looking for replacements. It was life as usual for friends and family, and foes had not even registered I\u2019d been missing for half a month! It made me realise how self-absorbed the belief is that our presence alone can alter the course of humanity. More often than not, it can\u2019t even alter the course of someone\u2019s day, let alone life. The fear of missing out, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/jomo-over-fomo-how-to-find-the-joy-of-missing-out\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FOMO<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is an inherently egotistical fear, with the belief that our existence matters so much that missing out on something is a travesty. Perhaps that\u2019s my biggest takeaway from the exercise \u2013 finding joy in my insignificance and discovering that it comes with a special kind of freedom. Once you have this, FOMO almost seems vulgar.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I signed up for 15 days of self-imposed silence to break a powerful addiction called \u201cThe Need for Control\u201d, a subset of the much-maligned FOMO. 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