Let's review what happened last week, shall we? The Supreme Court decided on marriage equality, the United States had a birthday, and the U.S. Women's National Team won the World Cup (can I get an amen?), Greece has an "I just graduated college and might get a job somewhere, eventually" level of debt that won't go away, and there was, of course, a potpourri of poor decision making, from bombs to bigotry, that runs about standard for the world. That was just last week.

To top it all off, a good majority of the population is thinking about all of that as well as a million other daily happenings that are both directly and indirectly influencing them. Crazy right?

Well, it will drive you that way.

We have this notion that, with smartphones having cameras and a wealth of knowledge and cat pictures built-in, if we aren't all constantly receiving tweets, updates, pics, Snapchats, likes, and whatever other instant gratification exists that we may die - not really, but in a figurative sort of way.

Seriously.

I know what you're saying right now. "But," you say, "I do relax! I sit in my room on Facebook and creep on anyone I've ever met and some I haven't." Trust me, I feel you. However, have you tried putting it away? I mean everything. Put your phone down. Turn off your laptop. Turn on some music and just be for a few minutes. Feel what it's like to just exist and not worry about her/him, work, and that one thing that happened six years ago that you're still kicking yourself for.

We've let our constant connection and drive to know what's going on tell us that, if we aren't always in the know and doing something, we are failing. You know that feeling, the one where you have so much to do all the time that, when you finally don't, you feel like you're forgetting something? Well, instead of letting that take over, do yourself a favor and Google the word mindfulness. Like, right now.

Mindfulness is this crazy concept that if we learn to let go for a few minutes, life gets better, and it works. Lucky for you, me, and every other person who breathes air, mindfulness has apps now (I use www.calm.com; check it out and thank me later) that make the whole thing quick and easy. How you do it isn't important, it's that you do it at all.

So next time you're about to bug out after getting off work and worrying about terrorists, the future, the past, Greece's radical amount of debt, or even scarier, your own, disconnect for a minute. It's pretty rad.