I also remember a time when it was entirely unnecessary to tell people to log off. I was fourteen and life was filled with touching grass. I rolled in it. I drank cask wine and cheap bourbon bartered from weird old men outside grog shops on it. I was drunk with my friends in the park, my jeans covered in stains. My piss touched the grass, as I... See more

We've demonized boredom.

Notice how we panic and get anxious when there's nothing to do. We reach for our phones at the first sign of silence and fill that empty space with noise. We fill every gap in the day with stimulation and distraction.

“I didn’t want to reject the digital world entirely; I just wanted to stop being consumed by it.”