Thought provoking
so,
if you are too tired to speak,
sit next to me
for i, too,
am fluent in silence.
—R. Arnold
Scrolling displaces observation, shuts out occasions for self-generated thought, silences out-of-the-blue invitations. Checking the phone reroutes the discomfort of blankness and emptiness. It stoppers authentic—often anxious—waiting. And, even more disturbing, scrolling narrows the field of my curiosity. I take what I find there; I don’t make... See more
