Life and everything we do seems to be speeding up – so fast, so vast, limitlessly propelled beyond the referential sphere of reality, the present and consciousness. The consequential factor is a high-speed society captured by the ecstasy of a ubiquitous popular media infatuation.

Zygmunt Bauman, a world-renowned Sociologist, titled this current condition of the world as "Liquid Modernity". According to Bauman this passage from "solid" to "liquid" modernity has created a new and unprecedented series of challenges before they are even encountered. His findings stipulate that we live fragmented lives, which requires individuals to be flexible, adaptable, ready and willing to change in this postmodern world of consumerism and media indigestion.

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