the strange thing about presence is that it rarely arrives by accident. you have to invite it. and inviting it usually means choosing the less convenient option. it’s easier to let the scroll swallow your evening than to sit in the quiet. it’s easier to skim through bedtime stories than to sink into them fully.

presence isn’t a dramatic shift; it’s the accumulation of small refusals to drift.

the strange thing about presence is that it rarely arrives by accident. you have to invite it. and inviting it usually means choosing the less convenient option. it’s easier to let the scroll swallow your evening than to sit in the quiet. it’s easier to skim through bedtime stories than to sink into them fully. autopilot is frictionless; living... See more