We reach for our phones not merely out of habit but out of existential dread. The silence. The stillness. The terrible weight of being alone with one's thoughts. We have made ourselves refugees from our own consciousness, fleeing into the digital realm where time dissolves, where the self fragments into likes and comments, where the infinite scroll... See more

You do not need to know.

No, truly. You do not.

You do not need to see one more headline about political decay. You do not need to know immediately that a billionaire has once again purchased something they should not have. You do not need to read an anonymous comment that will enrage you before breakfast.

But you do. You do, because some small,... See more

The phone is not the enemy. The enemy is fear—fear of stillness, fear of silence, fear of being alone with one's own thoughts.

So let this be the final word: use it, but do not be used by it. Hold it, but do not be held by it.

And above all, remember: the truest moments of life happen in the spaces where there is no screen.