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I have also been engaging in this behavior consistently. It feels so strange but as soon as it is done and behind and unattainable, life starts again. Bananas!
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today I went to the park without my smartphone.
the whole time I was there, I was actually there.
the whole time I was there, I was actually there.
Oct 9, 2024
Oct 10, 2024
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🏞today I went to the park without my smartphone.
the whole time I was there, I was actually there.
the whole time I was there, I was actually there.
Oct 9, 2024
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🌮Normal life is not being hitched to your phone like cattle in a yoke
Human thriving for thousands of years occurred without ready screen access
So I'd say: try anything but don't have your phone with you—go for a walk, hang with friends, draw, write, figure out a way to take pictures or listen to music without the phone; go to the store or class or to the party without it
I'm in this journey myself. Forcing myself to notice. Forcing myself to think differently. So instead say: I don't bring my phone with my everywhere. What's a good reason to have it this time? Changing the defaults.
Human thriving for thousands of years occurred without ready screen access
So I'd say: try anything but don't have your phone with you—go for a walk, hang with friends, draw, write, figure out a way to take pictures or listen to music without the phone; go to the store or class or to the party without it
I'm in this journey myself. Forcing myself to notice. Forcing myself to think differently. So instead say: I don't bring my phone with my everywhere. What's a good reason to have it this time? Changing the defaults.
May 15, 2025
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📵recent mental health booster I stumbled onto when my phone ended up dead one morning, so I went to a cafe near me to journal/read for a couple hours without it. there were so many times I phantom reached for my it like the addict I am, very glad I couldn’t that day or else stupid things would have been done. I was forced to sit in the moment and process my thoughts without being able to actively do anything or contact anyone. did it the next day purposely and I had such a good day.
leave your phone at home sometimes when you’re bumming around your area doing small errands! also forces you to learn your surroundings rather than relying on google maps.
leave your phone at home sometimes when you’re bumming around your area doing small errands! also forces you to learn your surroundings rather than relying on google maps.
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😃especially when you guys have been friends for a while and you pull up one of their old playlists and are sunk into their world (a world that you were a part of!)
I just started listening to a playlist my friend made in high school with the title of our favorite coffee shop we’d always go to. I could feel her soul in that playlist and it felt like a time stamp of who we were in that moment.
So special. Highly recommend.
I just started listening to a playlist my friend made in high school with the title of our favorite coffee shop we’d always go to. I could feel her soul in that playlist and it felt like a time stamp of who we were in that moment.
So special. Highly recommend.
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🎁I've been thinking about this a lot and have yet to find said signature book for myself but the theory behind this gift is as follows: you think of a book that you love personally but has 'crowd favorite' potential (while still not a book that everyone has read or else why give book in question as present). The gift strikes a balance between giving something that is meaningful/personal to you while also giving a gift that they actually may like. This is not the sort of thing to give to close personal friends whom you know very well as you'd rather give them something that is tailored to them specifically, but is a great gift for people who do not fall in that category or people whom you are struggling to shop for. Again, I am still thinking about what my signature book will be but can imagine that once I find it, it will simplify gift-giving. Also you build aura as you give this book out consistently; it becomes strongly associated with you within the social circles in which you run (not that this should be the purpose of a good gift, just an added benefit).