Offline

2025-12-31

You lose so much in being online.

Whatever goal you have, one often gets lost and wrecks his time.

I’d love to be offline so much more but there’s FOMO. As well as things that I’m now used to, which are so much harder to remove than they were to add.

It connects in some ways but disconnects in other much stronger ways. Disconnects me from my attention and will. I become unable to move against inertia and just keep going with the flow. Not giving myself time to think, I just keep going.

Then once I’ve somehow managed to get out of the stupor I was in, it dawns on me the time I just wasted. I regret it but I change nothing. Making that mistake over and over.

The only way to alter it seems, is to change the environment itself.

Turn off the internet. Pull the plug.

Offline I’m in control. I can read, write, think. That is what I most want to do.

Not the easy stuff, but what feels most good once I’m done. What carries over as strength to future me.