jumpstart: doomscroll apocalypse
can’t sit still without reaching for a rectangle
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remember who you were before the dullness set in
unrot your brain
Jan before social media:
- Read books
- Random walks
- Wrote stories
- Watched courses
- Drew
- Cut up stuff
- Rearranged room
- Danced
- Street photography
the sugary rush of reels
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How do I protect my inner world in a loud digital age?
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we lose so much. our opinions, our ideas, our tastes, our calling, our curiosities, our questions in life. it all becomes murky, foggy, and rusty.
THE ANALOGY:
Protecting your inner world in a loud digital age is like closing the curtains during a noisy street festival so you can hear your own thoughts.
And maybe I needed the break. Maybe after years of pressure and burnout and noise, I earned a little numbness. But no one warns you how easy it is to slip from rest into rot.
unrot your brain
IT’S SO EASY TO SLIP FROM REST → ROT! Wow. People now have equated rest to rotting when in reality it just numbs them. Feeds their minds with junk. Overwhelms them. Exposes them to comparison tendencies, insecurities, and feeling behind. What’s so restful about that? Maybe that’s why people don’t feel rested. It’s cause they do it with screens.