How to Stop Living Your Life on Autopilot
our brains are efficient machines — they conserve energy by automating what they can. in some ways, autopilot is kindness: it keeps you functioning when you don’t have much left to give. the challenge isn’t to shame yourself out of it but to catch it when it stretches too far, when entire weeks blur into a smear.
Ayushi Thakkar • How to Stop Living Your Life on Autopilot
sometimes i wonder if we confuse autopilot with stability. there’s comfort in routine; it saves energy, it keeps chaos at bay. but stability without awareness can easily turn into absence. you keep going through the days, steady and smooth, and then wake up years later wondering where all that time went. when people say “this year flew by,” i think... See more
Ayushi Thakkar • How to Stop Living Your Life on Autopilot
none of those moments looked productive. they didn’t move me toward any particular goal. but they cracked open space in my memory, and that space is what makes time feel lived.
Ayushi Thakkar • How to Stop Living Your Life on Autopilot
the strange thing about presence is that it rarely arrives by accident. you have to invite it.
Ayushi Thakkar • How to Stop Living Your Life on Autopilot
it’s the accumulation of small refusals to drift.
Ayushi Thakkar • How to Stop Living Your Life on Autopilot
sometimes i look back on the morning and wonder if i actually lived it, or if i simply passed through it like a ghost, drifting from one habit to the next.