There is more time available than the world is letting us believe. We are being gas-lit, or maybe just digitally gassed, by the environment around us to feel that there is no time to do anything. We need to remove the veil, put down our phones and figure out what we want. We have no time because we fill the voids with nothingness.
I am on vacation. I am, for the most part doing nothing. I look to my phone as an involuntary tick because I don’t know what else to do. I’m looking for more hits of stimulation, unguided and without direction. I’m looking for digital wins, like scratch off tickets for the imagination.
If, as I’m proposing, there is more time available I need to improve my relationship with it. I need to keep the time free of clutter. The first thing that pops into mind is billing myself for phone time. What if non-useful phone time was billed like old school international phone calls? I bet I’d curb my habits really quickly. Or what if social media only worked while I was doing physical fitness activities? Look, I know these are not the exact answers. They are ideas to help inform my future choices.
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