I felt it, I knew it, but I didn't have the energy to put it into words. Thank you for that. I'm still waiting for the push to get started....it's hard.
“ The second we are away from outside stimulation we are dead.”
You made the state of using the phone/scrolling sound so unsexy and grim, that it would partly help me control this muscle memory.
As I write this comment, thinking thag I’ll keep my phone aside after writing this, and feeling a sense of second-hand epiphany, I hope this realisation doesn’t wear off when I wake up again tomorrow morning.
thank you! i'm glad it resonated with you. and yes my current belief is we forget all new wisdom in pretty quick succession these days. if i read something that clicks with me i just try to put in a reminder to re-read it because i know the positive effects will wear off.
Slowly but surely people are waking up to this, I think. Everyday when I commute to and from work, I look around. Every SINGLE person on the train or bus is buried in their phone. 7:00am. Some people clearly just rolled out of bed and got on the bus. And they’re nose to screen. Not even watching anything or taking anything in. Just flipping reels one after another. Barely awake, eyes barely open. Slumped over with awful posture blasting their retinas and frying their brains before they even have breakfast. Not to mention they’re about to go sit at their desk and stare at their work screen for 8 hours. No one gives their minds space to breathe anymore. It’s the land of the dead vs the very few in the land of the living. I want to go around and shake people out of the stupor. But I’m hoping, and slowly seeing, that people are beginning to take notice. Maybe one day we will snap ourselves out of it as a collective culture.
“Memento mori, Memento vivere”
Remember you must die, Remember to live
I felt it, I knew it, but I didn't have the energy to put it into words. Thank you for that. I'm still waiting for the push to get started....it's hard.
Thank you
Having your phone out of your reach helps.
We need our phones way less than we think we do.
Jords always killing it
thank you brother!
Loved this.
“ The second we are away from outside stimulation we are dead.”
You made the state of using the phone/scrolling sound so unsexy and grim, that it would partly help me control this muscle memory.
As I write this comment, thinking thag I’ll keep my phone aside after writing this, and feeling a sense of second-hand epiphany, I hope this realisation doesn’t wear off when I wake up again tomorrow morning.
Anyway, thanks for writing :)
thank you! i'm glad it resonated with you. and yes my current belief is we forget all new wisdom in pretty quick succession these days. if i read something that clicks with me i just try to put in a reminder to re-read it because i know the positive effects will wear off.
have a great week :')
Slowly but surely people are waking up to this, I think. Everyday when I commute to and from work, I look around. Every SINGLE person on the train or bus is buried in their phone. 7:00am. Some people clearly just rolled out of bed and got on the bus. And they’re nose to screen. Not even watching anything or taking anything in. Just flipping reels one after another. Barely awake, eyes barely open. Slumped over with awful posture blasting their retinas and frying their brains before they even have breakfast. Not to mention they’re about to go sit at their desk and stare at their work screen for 8 hours. No one gives their minds space to breathe anymore. It’s the land of the dead vs the very few in the land of the living. I want to go around and shake people out of the stupor. But I’m hoping, and slowly seeing, that people are beginning to take notice. Maybe one day we will snap ourselves out of it as a collective culture.
How true, I think most of so called technology isn’t very useful to lead an interesting and useful life.