You're On Mute!

You’re on mute! Was a ubiquitous phrase in the stone age of 2020. Memes, paraded social media, and it eventually became the lexicon of every business virtual meeting. Moreover, why is you’re on mute such an apt phrase in 2021! We get it, Zoom is wonky at best, but let’s extrapolate a bigger meaning of why each of us, is well on mute.

Firstly, social justice. In short, there are various demographics that feel that their voices were muted during civil rights eras, women’s rights to vote, and for safe measure the rebirth of common knowledge: The Renaissance. Let’s start with saying that, this point of view will be balanced, and non supportive of any political entity. Injustice pummels gouvernements, in all areas that kings, queens, Prime Ministers, and presidents, seek to absolve. Consequently, in their quest for silencing those who create injustice, they mute the very voices they are supporting, by usually taking a a more myopic approach to create a better system for all disagree (ers), to exist in. Really, the question should be asked who is muting who?

Secondly, the digital workplace. It’s amusing when you look at the digital workspace today. People are live chatting, in their cars, on planes ( masks of course ), carrying on these meetings only to realize they have muted their health. With quarantine life being a new fad, trend, workers are being more productive at home, but they are not being more social. The irony of working from home, is that, there is no separation. Work, school, kids, dates, recreation all focus on the home. Henceforth, self-care, or in this case, simply being healthy is being neglected or on mute. The probing question now for 2021, how do we get off mute?

Lastly, it is really simple. Engage yourself in more creative or non creative works that will revive your inner energy. With reasonable limits. Remember in a Zoom meeting, that the mute button is controlled by a host, at times if he is awake. Secondly, you also have that power to unmute. For some reason I started yelling: I’ve got the power!” In all seriousness; YOU’RE ON MUTE was the decade of 2020. Let’s turn the conversation from you’re on mute to, I’ve learned how to unmute myself.