dharmander

These things are killing our spirit in more ways than I think we could ever realize. If you haven’t yet found a way to take an intentional, extended break from your media apps, do it now. Figure out how much if a hold it has on your life before continuing down the path of trusting it completely. /4

within only a few weeks, I realized just how depressed it was making me to be on these apps/my phone. I was forced to remember what it was like to have to find something else to do with my time, and felt better each day having spent those literal HOURS doing something in the physical world. 3/

Something I’ve noticed that deeply troubles me: when people who intellectually understand complex topics try to share them in some audio-based medium, but fail to connect the necessary dots for their audience because they sound like individual comments made on a social media post. Vague & redundant

The social media scrolling was a habit, not a conscious choice. I would open my phone to do one thing and somehow my thumbs had guided me to instagram. I stopped this by deleting the apps. Once I did that, I remembered intention was to stop. It did irritate me at first to be “bored”, but 2/

One of the most impactful things I’ve done in the last 5 years is take a social media and smartphone hiatus. It helped me put some things into perspective 1/