In this age of technology and distractions, our attention is almost always divided among a plethora of notifications battling for our time. Why do you have some of your best ideas, thoughts, reminders in the shower? Because you’re not reaching for your phone the second it dings (or hopefully not).

From smoke signals to snail mail to electronic messaging in all its various short-forms, communication has evolved to be lightning fast and as easy as opening the mouth and pressing a button. But what happens when words get sent as quickly as neurons fire? It once took months, miles, and great hardship for communication to be transmitted. How pensively one must have thought about a message before letting it loose into the world.

My father's from Mexico and is mostly indigenous. As a child, he instilled in me a deep spirituality and a sense of karmic justice: that there's a reason things happen -- not that everything that happens is good, but that it’s an essential part of one’s life path and is something that will ultimately make us grow as human beings, as spiritual beings. When something happens that makes me feel out of control, what restores my sense of control is knowing that there's a larger picture at play. It makes me feel like I don't have to be personally in control of everything because there is something larger that I believe in.