Catching up on some newsletter emails and this was a shot in the arm I needed 5 weeks into the latest ... well ... everything. I have not been protecting my attention and I am not even pretending that consuming the way I have been has any redeeming parts other than the one big one and that is ... I do not have anybody IRL who is seeing all of this the same way I am. The only people I have access to seeing that (just like with the pandemic) is online and with that comes consumption and giving my attention away. It's a never ending cycle that I need to at least balance out a bit before it swallows me whole. I am going to come back and read this one a few times to help remind me of what's at stake.
It is such a complicated mess isn’t it?! You described it so well…. It’s like we go for the validation/ connection and get sucked into the rest…. Ugh..Substack has helped me stay off other social media platforms. Recently I have gotten incredible results from taking one day off a week from any news , social media, etc. Sundays are for Poetry and personal headlines with friends (as Emily Freeman writes about- I mentioned it in my latest essay. Thanks for sharing this. Sending you all the energy and attention imaginable for this journey!
Catching up on some newsletter emails and this was a shot in the arm I needed 5 weeks into the latest ... well ... everything. I have not been protecting my attention and I am not even pretending that consuming the way I have been has any redeeming parts other than the one big one and that is ... I do not have anybody IRL who is seeing all of this the same way I am. The only people I have access to seeing that (just like with the pandemic) is online and with that comes consumption and giving my attention away. It's a never ending cycle that I need to at least balance out a bit before it swallows me whole. I am going to come back and read this one a few times to help remind me of what's at stake.
It is such a complicated mess isn’t it?! You described it so well…. It’s like we go for the validation/ connection and get sucked into the rest…. Ugh..Substack has helped me stay off other social media platforms. Recently I have gotten incredible results from taking one day off a week from any news , social media, etc. Sundays are for Poetry and personal headlines with friends (as Emily Freeman writes about- I mentioned it in my latest essay. Thanks for sharing this. Sending you all the energy and attention imaginable for this journey!