Your mom was right. It's that damn phone.
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2024
- Overconsumption and overstimulation is rampant in the modern era. What are the real consequences? And what can you do to reconnect with reality?
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Timestamps:
Intro: 0:00
The TikTok Bird Trend: 0:06
How Children See The World: 0:33
Consumption VS Creation: 3:37
Why We Can't Perceive The Bird Anymore: 4:41
Imaginative Play: 5:26
How A Sandbox Relates To The Bird: 6:03
What We're Chasing On Social Media: 7:41
How To Reconnect With Creation: 8:22
Meet People On Self-Improvement: 10:07
Topics: phone addiction, overstimulation is ruining your life, how to stop scrolling, doomscrolling
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4:20 bullshit children are easily bored
@Cilo2Crazy Damn...I'm really happy you're still here. I hope you're starting to realize your worth. Thank you for supporting me and watching my videos.
that was beautyfull man thank you
these days, moms use their phones more than their kids lol
@@jarrellfamily1422are you calling the fact that children aren't bored easily as 'bullshit'
Or are you calling kids who are bored easily 'bullshit '
For someone who used to be addicted to his phone but now uses it for less than 30 min a day, life's never been better.
King
@@ColeHastings Likewise
How did you do it I’m addicted as fuck
That is amazing!! How did you do it?
How
One day we all realize “What am I doing?”
tens of 1000s of hours wasted... although there is knowledge to be had but is mostly scrolling these days.
It’s not nun to do but spend money
No it’s just you dumb dumb, smh 🤦 not everyone is addicted to a dumb phone like you. SMH 🤦 speak for yourself, you must be slow smh 🤦 only betas are addicted to phones smh 🤦
Literally cannot find a job without interfacing the web
Ill be already dead when that time comes
I’m glad someone else called out those idiots who actually believe that mourning doves are extinct. I literally hear them all the time.
Same lol
Yeah I hear it every morning
Literally hearing a dove right now
Same I’m convinced these people literally aren’t going outside
same
As a 16 year old girl whos recently deleted social media (not for the first time, i used to keep going back lmfao), ive noticed a huge difference in a matter of days. ive spent so much time reading, listening to audiobooks, writing, going for walks, colouring, even just finding the weirdest ways to keep myself entertained, and just hobbies in general that i completely abandoned to use my phone, or spend time on unnecessary socials, and its been so beyong refreshing. I feel like we all forget how to live normally until we truly delete everything. I'm literally limiting myself to an hour of youtube a day (on my laptop or tv only, i dont have it on my phone) and 15 minutes of time on messages, so i can interact with friends, etc, but I still go to school, so i see everyone everyday, to further this progress ive already made, and see good results. I just wish more teens saw how your teenage years are literally the perfect time to stop using these apps that are literally ruining their mental health. Ive already seen so much improvement in a matter of days, and im beginning to learn how to entertain myself again and it truly feels amazing!!
This is very inspiring and relatable. Limiting yourself to only watch yt on other devices than phone is really smart, i will try this. Hopefully i can get as good results as you!
Social media ruin my life, i try to delete app and games then after few days or hours i install it again, i can't control my self the boredom is always i experience when i can't scroll social media
We've alot in common i would be glad if we can friends
This is fr my life goal, I, almost there-
Tysm for the extra encouragement!!!
good to know.
"Life should be an exciting adventure. It should never be a bore. A man should live fully, be alive. He should be glad to get out of bed in the morning." - Earl Nightingale
❤
Should...but couldn't because it's reality we live in
@@SirusStarTV sounds like a sad reality you live in. You should work to change your perspectives. Life is really not as bad as most make it. If you really consider it, most of the things in your life are right, but you focus on the wrong.
“The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson
@@dailydefaults you have a point, but dont think that people with serious mental illness can just "think their way out of it", it really depends. But many need to learn to appreciate and pay attention to good things
@@zakosist Great retort and a solid argument. However, even with people that have a documented diagnosis of mental illness, they still have to decide for themselves that they’re going to go to therapy (or that they’re actually gonna put in effort to change when they do go) or take their medication, change their habits/environments, friend groups. It always starts with a mental decision, no matter who you are. Thoughts are supreme, and changing your environment, friend group, or any other aspect of life starts with a thought.
*this goes for adults that are out on their own in the world, obviously children are at the whim of their parents/guardians.
as a active bird watcher, yall are missing out, there are birds everywhere literally, when I talk about birds people think I am crazy, but the people around me now notice more birds, and tell me 'hey I never noticed the birds before and now I see them all the time, they are interesting to watch and see, I couldn't see them before' I enjoy doing 'nothing' by going outside sitting in the grass and just existing out there, its so relaxing and enjoyable.
i genuinely believe bird watching is an amazing hobby that transforms the way you see the world
Started wildlife photography back in December, and I completely agree, if people got out more and just walked around they could definitely see all of the stuff they are missing out, just watching any sort of wildlife’s behavior when it’s out doing its own thing is phenomenal, I’ve been happy lately to just go to the same metro park to watch a pair of barred owls and I’ve witnessed bald eagles around their babies which is an amazing thing to see.
I love birds too! May sound silly but I saw a kingfisher a few months ago and I felt like the luckiest person in the world. My next relatively rare bird I want to see is a woodpecker which are notoriously shy. What’s your favourite bird?
@@waffles658May I answer this question? My favourite bird would have to be the red kite, there were so many where I used to live and it never got old seeing them soar!
It's so fun. Especially where I live in Ohio we get to witness the migrating warblers and all the lake birds. We got to see snowy owls hanging around Lake Erie a few years ago. It's like real life pokemon.
Excessive mobile phone use makes our bodies create so much dopamine. As a result we have not much left. We may feel tired, distracted, unmotivated, disconnected, anxious and even in the long run: depressed.
Other activities also work in a similar way: eating comfort food, sugary snacks, alcohol, pornography, gambling, drugs, etc.
If we want to go even deeper we can start asking ourselves: "What is it that I am trying to distract myself from ?" That can be many things happening on a subconscious level: painful feelings of let's say not feeling connected to your parents, friends and yourself. And many other unmet needs.
You can't go far without self-awareness.
Great assessment!
So the question is how can I fix it? Even if I know I feel pain from other things
Coping with trauma aswell
@@maddog_27 Let yourself feel the pain. It's really really hard at first, but you get used to it. Feel the pain, the discomfort, the anxiety, all of it. And in the future you won't be overwhelmed by it and won't feel the need to "flee" (to your phone)
Great comment!
I've decided that the common variable amongst most problems in my life is my phone. Bad attention span and can't study? Phone. Trouble talking to other people? Phone. Anxious? Phone. Porn? Phone.
Today is the start of my journey using it as little as possible. Godspeed everyone
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Bro dropped a masterpiece and thought we wouldn’t notice
well he definetley thought we would notice otherwise he wouldnt have taken the time to created this masterpiece and post it to youtube.
Dude sleepovers and Waking Up on saturday or generally on weekends used to be so fun.
Truly
Man...ur right...was...then we got older told its not OK anymore...then they turned into party's and drinking smoking....then jobs....we entered the rat race trying to escape the feelings of institutionalization from school and then entered a real prison without being told about these feelings and why...they knew that if we allow freedome we will lose our freedome of ruling the masses telling them this is life while they life the true life free of laboring for mindless years for jobs made to build their dreams...
As kids many of us would spend the night at our friends' places and "sleep over" there, play games outside and inside, stay up late talking or messing around, good memories
@@matthewdawson9364 I used to stay up until 6am lol!!! It was when I was younger and me and my cousins would keep each other awake. Now I am 15 and don’t have sleepovers anymore.
I work weekends now. Saturday, Sunday, Monday, three 12-hour days. Love my four day “weekends”, but miss Saturdays off. Weird mental thing on my part.😂 Maybe what I really miss is childhood and not being the grownup responsible for everything.
brain rot has taken the best of us :p
nah its just you
I’ve seen meme edits that have permanently damaged my humor
@@ForbiddenMist you are so #savage and #different 🔥
you're so sigmaaaa @@ForbiddenMist
@@ItsAryax hush kid
People might look down on me because of what I do for a living- I have an in-home preschool. But every day I get to live and interact with life this way through the eyes of children. They saved my spirit from this world. Shredded my ideas of limits of joy or patience, kindness and creativity. They have retaught me wonder, the simple art of wonder. That brings me so much peace.
I think this is beautiful! I’m glad you’re at peace 💗
I know the feeling. Two kids under the age of 5 and I volunteer at my churches youth group. So I get to see the wonder of this world from two different age perspectives.
What kind of assholes look down on you for that? That is most certainly their problem.
My kids too. But I worry I will squelch their spirit, because mine has been sapped. I am so tired.
Unbelievable how my Brain was trying to tell me to skip through this work of art even though it was only 10 minutes long. It‘s crazy how addicted I am to quick dopamine. I forced myself to watch the Full video and was crying for the second half. Thank you. I love you as a human being.
I stopped myself from reading comments til I was done or switching to 2x speed so I definitely feel uou man😅
About halfway through the video, I realized I could barely remember what it was like to be 10 years old again, and it genuinely scared me.
Great video. Love the lesson and message here.
these days moms use their phones more than their kids lol
Indeed its even worse when you see it in the tiktoks when they force them to do cute silly things for views
Exactly my thoughts when I read the title lol
My mother is literally addicted to Facebook
Hey.
This video is about moms.
I wish I hadn't spent most part of my life on my phone. It is literally my biggest regret in life. Yeah mom, you were always right
That's why I ride bikes and go hiking. I'm still playing and I still hear the birds who wake me up
I went on a vacation away from the city with my boyfriend for some days, I felt alive for the first time in some time when I didn't access my phone as much and I was on the company of someone I loved. It really does matter!
It is life changing to be off of your phones! My life has become more peaceful since deleting Facebook! Taking more walks outside starting before the sun rises and watching it rise and just listening and looking around makes my day so much better. The crickets go silent and the birds start singing with joy at the new day!
I watch plenty of TV sitting down. I sure don't need to watch it everywhere I go.
It's social media, that really is the "trap", imo. I'm already 29 and not as heavily affected by it's downsides as younger people, but I noticed that scrolling Instagram for too long, especially other's pages and pictures, tends to make me frustrated. All this comparison that comes with it is unhealthy and often devastating.
It seems to me that people are living in their own bubbles more than ever before, staring at the screens, lost in whatever they're consuming. There's much less interpersonal contact, verbal or nonverbal.
But there surely is a tendency to go "back to the roots", phones aside.
@iamsalman2652im working to make videos.
no you’re just old
@@nitnexono you're uncle😂
@@nitnexo 29 isn't old, kid.
@@nitnexoOh no, incel land is reaching CZcams comments 💀
I hate seeing people walking round outside while on their phone…. It happens a lot! They’re missing out on so much !
Go hike every weekend for 10+ miles without music or using phone extensively and you’ll get the same effect. Don’t assume what others are experiencing. Great video.
Whenever I hear the mourning dove, it always transfers me to a simpler time.
This was awesome, and so amazingly done. Thank you!
Social media is awful. I’m middle aged and can’t understand the obsession with it. I get outside and enjoy nature along with exercise regularly. It’s good for the soul.
As a child and young adult i felt vonnected to the real world .. beeing online was dtill in its infant stage .. youtube was a tool for tutorials .. now i feel disconnected to the real world.. like iam in a bubble just waiting to get back online .. since i started to unplug me from the matrix.. i feel more alive ..
I also started noticing my own brain rot, so I installed an extension on my browser that blocks websites like youtube after 2 hours of watch time, so basically a self inflicted parental control.
Within just a few days I already started noticing positive changes, with less info that my brain had to swallow throughout the day, I became much more creative with ideas.
Maybe 2 hours a day is enough. And I mean for EVERYTHING internet related, be it youtube or any other social media.
And we can do even better with less connectivity
Good job man
whats the extension called?
so if i did the same would i be able to get my creativity back?
@@AjharHussain-tr2irabsolutely! And if you started to rarely use multiple inspections for a painting, it'd turn to the better
Im built different I would simply just turn it off
Beautiful video!! Thanks so much for creating this! ❤
I can still play like a kid but my friends would think it's embarassing. It sucks, it would be weird behaving like a kid as an adult. :(
I walked outside almost everyday, even if it is cold. It is beautiful and breath taking while walking around the neighborhood.
Walkin the Woods, the forest, not the neighborhood!
I have uninstalled everything except youtube for almost 3 months now. I must be honest that I am a bit addicted to YT. But when I started this away time from the virtual world, I ended up crying for almost 15 minutes. Because I could hear things, hear the chirping of birds, croaking frogs, crickets and even the breeze. I remember crying out loud after repeating loudly “I can hear everything”. It was worth it. I must reduce my screen time.
😮 this is inspirational!
Great vid, thank you so much. Great cinematics :)
It's ironic- as a young kid, you always are so excited about growing up and becoming an adult and all the things you can do. But the older you get, the more you start to envy your younger years and the carefree way life was and all the memories.
Whenever I hear that morning dove now, I always get a warm feeling and glimpse of my younger child self playing outside on a warm summer evening.
This was epic! Thank you for creating this.
Sadly my mother forces me to have one for communication. I don’t get why she couldn’t have gotten a cheaper dumb phone and now I’m dealing with internet addiction
Thank you for this video
Your story telling ability is inspiring, it’s gotten even better. The hard work is paying off
Thank you 🙏
Wow. That was an incredible and moving video. So often I come back to thinking "Life as a kid was so much more colourful, more vibrant, lively" and you described this phenomenon perfectly. I am 26 now and on a journey of finding my inner curiosity and this video helps a lot with that. Thank you
I left my phone home the other day. I was amazed to notice how long days actually are 😂
i don’t spend much time wasting my time on my phone. ill spend some time catching up on instagram and texting people if others have texted me or if i want to text them about something. if im on my phone ill be on youtube watching something from someone i like or im drawing on my ipad. i used to be severely depressed and used to be on my phone for 12 hours a day. i am so glad to say im a survivor of the worst of it. life is so worth truly living and im glad i found that :)
Great video! The world is our playground! "We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing".
So sometimes all you need to do is put the damn phone away and be in the moment. It gives you superpowers!😄💪
I have learnt so much from my phone. Im a totally different person to who i was. But i need to cut down a lot on my phone so i can experience life with minimal screen time and be more present.
We all have realized that our parents were always right
Miss you Dad ..🥺🤲🏻♥️
Love ‘em while you have em 😢❤
I spent lots of my time outdoors or playing with dolls but when i got older i started playing on the tablet more and more and same with my phone, its deficult to find something to do since I'm always wanting to scroll for hours and hours and sit or lay there, I've recently been struggling with lots of mental issues mostly anxiety and i think I'm going to try to not to be on my phone as much, seeing the comments not being on device's for hours and hours migjt just help!
Ive started a social media break right now and the first week I’m feeling much more present and fulfilled. Great video to keep my motivation up!
Such a good video man
I don't know why I clicked on this vid but I had to pause when the sound of the mourning dove was mentioned. One of my oldest memories was when I was sleeping over at my grandfather's house with my sister, every morning we would hear multiple mourning doves. We weren't allowed to go downstairs before a certain time and we couldn't be loud, so we would whisper as the early sun would peek through the blinds and we'd just mimic the doves and whisper about how many chestnuts we'd go find on the field today. I'm a millennial but that sound of the doves brings me back to that specific morning or weekend. The childish anticipation of the day to come and what thoughts were in our minds then. I didn't even need to finish the video to know what would follow. Needless to say, I do still hear the mourning doves, but during my busiest years, I'm sure I haven't heard a single one.
That’s amazing❤
I’ve been unplugging a little this week, I drove out of cell range and sat in the mountain forest with a little rain, umbrella, and a notepad. I just sat there, attempted to meditate (I don’t know what I’m doing), may have failed that in a way but, I just took a few pictures with my phone and otherwise left it in my pocket. I lost track of time, I let my mind process myself, and the beauty around me. It didn’t give me answers to big things, but it let me get closer. I have been avoiding my phone when I wake up now as well, and try to spend some of the morning totally away from social media and CZcams, even music.
It’s hard to fight the urge to play something, but it’s also great at the same time.
Immerse yourself in the world around you, let your brain catch up on thoughts, and listen to your inner self, feelings, and process it.
Understand yourself, let the magic of thought come back, and let boredom fuel you to do what you actually want, it could be a project or hobby, something new, just let your brain wander and guide you to start something.
This will bring a level of harmony to your life, be intune with yourself, and you can then be true to yourself. Let external voices and ideas slide off, who cares what they think and want you to be. Be yourself, take control of your mind, and be who you want to be.
Wow. Thank you for writing this, it made me think a lot. Best of luck and make sure not to ever snuff out your curiosity
anybody else notice the ambience coming out of the specific square of the video,, to get us more focused
I never lost that sense of wonder of seeing the world as a massiv playground but i am still addicted to my phone and sometime i look outside the window and getting really sad that my desire for staying inside is greater then going outside even though i would love to go outside.
whats more sadder is that my mom is the one who is addicted to phone. we keep arguing about how she is more focus on updating on social media instead of having lunch together and talk about life :(
Recently I was thinking that our constant screen time keeps us occupied and delivers dopamine of novelty, but it robs us of presence itself. And presence is this ingredient that we had as children. Everything was interesting, I used to pay attention to smallest details, colors and lights, texture, shapes and sounds. I am trying to go back to this kind childish kind of awareness and limit the screen time a bit. It is hard however, as social media brings such instant relief from boredom and has become this automatic thing we do without thinkingz
Thank you, you’ve convinced me to put a phone app limit again
For various reasons, I didn’t own a phone until I was 21 (I am about to turn 30), and thinking back, I am grateful I didn’t. I had more hobbies, used my imagination, and boredom made way to ideas and goals. I noticed a lot more things and was always present in the moment. Now, it’s very hard to stay away from social media because that’s how the world works and communicates now, but the times I’ve been able stay away for a while have been a breath if fresh air and resembled simpler times when phones weren’t required to have fun.
Two mourning doves live around my house, I hear them all the time
I call to the Mourning Dove and they answer. We dont use any chemicals on our property nor do we destroy our leaves only clearing whete we need to plant. When i go outside and even when the windows are open i can hear bees, birds like Crow and Hawk and Robin and Chickadee and at night sometimes i hear Coyote and Fox and the wind through the leaves. However, somedays, the cars are so loud i cannot hear what i hear when human machines are silent.
Beautiful
My mom wasn’t right. My mom is the one with the phone problem. I used to have phone problems years ago. Don’t have the time or patience for it anymore. I have to many hobbies that I enjoy. I just make sure my ringer is on cause I don’t keep my phone at my hip.
I started going for long walks with my wife and daughter and we started listening to the birds and it was so calming. Just walking and talking enjoying our presence in the moment. It’s become a big part of our daily routine.
:30 i actually watched that exact video of the mourning dove coo. Now I notice theres at least 2 that roost near my apartment
I still hear those morning doves most of my mornings. 🤷♂️
I hear that same dove every morning I walk outside 🤷♂️ idk why people think they disappeared
I hear them outside every day. Go outside and just sit there and do nothing and you will hear them. Also early morning the birdsong is just beautiful.
What a beautiful video ❤❤
My husband and got into bird watching recently and so when we go on walks we really take in the environment and appreciate the nature and birds around us. One day my husband was leaving a soccer game and looked at a bird that he had never seen before and he was trying to figure out what kind of bird it was. Some kids that saw him stop and stare at the bird were making fun of him and said something like “ this guy has never seen a bird before”. I think what the kid who said this didn’t realize is that we often see birds but we don’t really SEE them. We think we do, but we don’t. Have you noticed their colors and the sounds they make ? What kind of bird it was and the way that they fly? People see wonderful things around them everyday but fail to really SEE them because they are more preoccupied with their our thoughts or mindless things like scrolling on a phone. The mourning dove is a super common bird and I hear its sound very often because every time Im outside is an opportunity for me to look at the wonderful birds around us but a lot of people don’t do this and live their lives mindlessly instead of being in the present. It is actually so sad and all this to say that bird watching is an amazing hobby that will make you feel more alive.
Beautiful. Remember to cherish life ❤❤😊
I am so glad I am an outdoorsy person who is still willing to learn and take adventure.
If flip phones were a decent price I'd still be using one.
I'm not an outdoors person, but even I like to limit my phone use.
Normalize “Go do something” after a video
Honestly, from someone who is 22 I can say that I can still hear the doves and I do still use my phone. I don’t know maybe it’s just me. 😊
best way to get off your phone: birdwatching. I have gotten into birdwatching for the past three years of college and I absolutely enjoy it. I makes me observe bot just the birds, but the natural setting they live in. Just go outside and observe what they do, it is very entertaining and meditative.
Yeh and now u put me on it again
Its so important to really take the time to ground yourself in this day and age. I really didnt believe the morning dove sang anymore because my childhood friend and i talk about nostalgia so much and when I was at her house with my babies the last time we both heard it again. She says every once in a while she still hears them but it had been years since i remember hearing it. I hear it in my yard now and as im typing there are birds chirping loudly right outside my front door. Your video is inspiring. I love grounding myself in the present but dont do it enough. What helps me is realizing with my 2 kids that if we dont then we rob our children of the same experience and fun we had. Playing in mud, picking wild blackberries, climbing trees, riding bikes, playing with the waterhose and feeling a sense of connection eith loved ones and thinking this was such a perfect day.
but what do I even do? i have strict parents who never let me go outside..
I never stopped hearing the bird tho but it is that damn phone that shortens my attention span and my ability to focus on studying or cleaning
I have been super conflicted lately. I love seeing things like this video. The idea is beautiful, the visuals are beautiful. I enjoyed watching this and it helped me.
The reason I have been conflicted is because I want to be creative and I want to eventually share my creative output. That being said, what if my creative output just ends up causing the same problems in other people as the ones you outlined in this video?
I feel like my creativity has been suffocated due to consumption, but what if my creativity ends up suffocating others??
The reason I don't hear that bird is because we don't have it in my country
As an “old” person who grew up without phones or internet- or computers for that matter- the sounds of the world give you peace and calm your soul. I often walk to many places -even take the bus because it requires walking too and from- just to hear the world and its sounds. Very calming effect. I also drive with the windows down because I hate the silence a closed car can create. Opening the windows helps me absorb those calming sounds. So I fully support the “get off your damn phone” movement.
Yeah why does everyone drive with all the windows up, no matter what temperature it is, even if it is perfect like 50-90 degrees? I do notice that. I drive with them open.
More than that, it's also the "omg how could you not know x y z". You can't talk to people or be accepted (aka find community) unless you know everything they know, therefore having to be constantly up to date on everything going on online.
That's what everyone talks about (understandably) , you have to be in on everything in order to have a conversation.
And it's not just about oh you don't know this trend or this song etc.. even more "serious" and "mature" people, they're constantly online looking up every tiny information out there.
It's like in order not to be called a dumb ignorant idiot, you have to be online all the time, as info there is more varied etc.. but also more easily available and fast, more than you'd find by reading books.
The "superficial" people as well as the "intellectuals" are all about shaming you for not obviously knowing this or that.
There's only so much you can know at one given time if you're not constantly looking up/reading/consuming information.
At one point I was like you know what, I'll just go online and "inform myself", instead of complaining. That only resulted in me being constantly on my phone in order not to miss any "omg obvious" information, and guess what, that still happened. 🤷🏻♀️
Great video! I don’t touch my phone for the 1st hour I am awake. Trying to put it away an hour before bed
Smart and inspirational!❤
Yeah Mom was right. But now she's the one using it too much.
Its not the phone its social media
amazing video thank you a lot. made me feel very emotional
Not just the phone, but TV did this even before the phone. I used to tell my kids the TV was sucking their brains out. It made them dull, and less creative.
I envy everyone who had a childhood with no real intrusive thoughts. I developed teenage level crippling self doubt and the deep internal loathing that came with it when I was 4. I remember the day it happened like it was yesterday.
Building, frantic piano that ends abruptly with the end of the video really makes me feel I I've watched something smart.
this is such a cool topic and discussion! i wish i had friends who would have convos like this
90% of people have headphones in and their eyes glued to the screen every waking hour.
I live in a high rise that’s 20 floors so the elevator ride is 20-30 seconds.
Almost everyone pulls their phone from their pocket to check it while they are in the elevator.
We that go 30 seconds without needing to be distracted from slight boredom
People are meant to be in the world interacting with one another, we are not meant to stare at a screen, never actually having human interaction on any meaningful way. Social media killed us, young and old.
I'm very proud of myself.
I still hear the morning dove 😭
Activities like skateboarding and riding dirtbikes can preserve the imagination
Just like the rest, I accociate the mourning dove with childhood. It was always most prevelant when i visited my grandparents, in a sleepy village in a completely different country with a different language. During those long summers waking up to roster calls and mourning doves, I had to be exceptionally creative to fill my time with fun. My cousins and I would run up and down the road playing make-believe and we'd teach eachother our languages. I still hear the morning dove when i visit, where wifi is shotty and slow time with family is limited.
But even more to your point, i started getting sick of the amount of media i was taking in. Videos and music would get on my nerve and id seek out silence. Walks would start as an opportunity to finally listen to a podcast episode only to be spent listening to the trees rustle. And then i realised my new home which I moved to last year has mouring doves. Not only that, but i visited my old home recently, an apartment in a busy loud town across the way from a shopping centre and for fuck sake i heard mourning doves there too!! My whole teenhood i lived there and never noticed.
Take a break for technology. The rewarding feeling when you consume is not linearly proportional to how much you consume. You forget most that information anyway so give yourself permission to set it aside. It'll be there when you come back.
The Light Phone is a great alternative y’all
I have really been starting to use my phone more as a tool rather than entertainment. It's such a powerful thing and you can literally make a living off of it. But instead, others make money off of us.
i switched the phone out for tv ugh.
I am online way too much. Me and a few of my friends decided that we needed to fix that if we want to live a better life. Thank you for this video.
They’re still here. I still hear them cause they hang out around my house each and every day. I still spend more time than I should on my phone. (Location: Western Kansas.
Social media are made to be addictive. And it works. The scarry thing is that sociaty is now in the real world and in the online one. And they are interconnect. So not beeing "online" will mean be an outsider of the society , will mean not full knowing whats going on. That's the problem. And even if the web has brough some really great things, and in the start of social media too, we have taking it to far.
A really stupid exemple:
If am not on my phone and I don't answer to my boss they will be angry at me.
I think that one of the aswer could be, being able to divide things. Setting bounderis.
I don't want to lose myself on my phone, but also I don't want to lose contact to the world that I am in.
I CAN STILL HEAR THE MOURNING DOVES