Is it really impossible to go without Internet for a day? A reflection from the field. 🌳📵
I keep asking myself, is WiFi so essential when you come to the country for a day or two? Can’t we really disconnect for a while from this hyper-connected world? 🤯
I say this with a mixture of frustration, sadness… and, frankly, a bit of resignation as well 😞.
I recently had a customer leave. He literally packed his bags and left because his room was not getting a good internet signal 📡. I explained to him calmly that in the common areas it worked perfectly, that the problem was specific, that in this house some walls are more than a meter thick 🧱… but there was no way. He did not want to understand. He left. Just like that.
And I’ll be honest with you: I was devastated. These things affect me. The fact that a client leaves me generates a brutal anxiety… it gives me bad heartburn 😵💫. Because behind that there is work, effort, illusion… and of course, frustration when something fails.
And what did I do? Well, believe it or not, I jumped headlong into the search for a definitive solution. I called several companies to ask for quotes. After years of home-made fixes, tinkering, signal extenders and digital survival tricks, I decided that enough was enough. It was time to do things right ✅.
The proposal I have accepted has been from a company from Girona 👷♂️. They have designed me a professional system with outdoor antennas, two fiber optic lines, a Starlink connection 🚀, all well organized in a rack as God intended. No cables crossing corridors like in a soviet laboratory of the 80’s 😂.
Of course, the joke goes to more than 10,000 euros 💸. But after 20 years pulling with what I could, I think it is a necessary investment. Because in the end cheap is expensive. Very expensive. And we all know that we have been cheating as we could, for lack of liquidity, for fear of getting into expenses … But things badly done are paid. Always.
And yet, I can’t help but keep thinking about the same thing: can we really not go a day without WiFi? Not even a weekend without it? 😶
I understand that without light you cannot live. I understand that. But without internet… neither?
We have become so dependent on connection, streaming, infinite scroll… that we have forgotten what we come to the field for. To breathe. To hear the birds. To touch the ground. To do nothing. To return to the essential 🌿.
The other day, without going any further, I saw one walking his dog around town. Leash in hand, cell phone in the other. He was so engrossed in the screen, that he didn’t see the curb and gave himself a big blow 🤕. He didn’t look at the dog. He wasn’t looking where he was stepping. He was only looking at his cell phone 📱.
And I said to myself: something is slipping away.
Coming to the countryside is an opportunity to reconnect, not with the router, but with oneself. With silence. With what surrounds us. And if the first thing we do when we arrive is ask for the WiFi password, maybe we need more field than we think.
Anyway. I’ll still be here, improving whatever it takes, giving my all for those who choose to stay 🙌. But if you come and there’s no 5G on the pillow… try not to lose your temper. Sometimes, the best thing about this place is precisely what doesn’t work like in the city ❤️.
Reflection: When disconnecting becomes a luxury
We are living in a curious time: we have more tools to communicate than ever before, but less capacity to be present. The case of a guest who leaves because he can’t get WiFi to his bed is not an unimportant anecdote. It is a symptom. A symptom that something in our scale of priorities has become misaligned.
Technology has given us a lot, of course. But it has also robbed us of things that were once sacred: silence, patience, waiting. Today, even in a natural environment, with trees, clean sky, fresh air… people demand connection speed rather than connection with their surroundings.
And this affects everyone: those who come looking for relaxation but can’t put down their cell phones; those who manage a rural accommodation and are forced to invest thousands of euros just to guarantee a “digital experience” that, in theory, should not be the reason for the trip.
What happened to coming to the field for a break from it all?
The saddest thing is not that people ask for WiFi. It is that many people can no longer conceive of rest without it. They have confused “disconnect” with “stay connected, but in another nice place”.
The paradox is brutal: we are surrounded by tools to live better, and yet sometimes it seems that we don’t even know how to look at a tree without wondering if it has good coverage.
Perhaps the most revolutionary thing today is not to have WiFi in every room. Maybe the most courageous thing is to turn off the cell phone, look up… and be able to be, just be, without the need to be online.
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From MasTorrencito we wish you a good day and may your dogs be with you!!!!
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