The gap between surviving and thriving

There is a gap between the state of surviving and thriving that needs to be closed before a thriving life can be embraced.

In the modern world, our senses are abused by artificial lights, sounds, and smells in the cities we live in. Our media devices fill us with more helpful and useless information that we can consume in multiple lifetimes. Our problem is not with the abundance, but that we don't know how to manage all of this.