Sometimes I feel like a depressing Dr. Seuss book.
“I am tired.
Tired I am.
Have you tried this wellness scam?”
Perhaps this is relatable. Personally, I get easily overwhelmed by the amount of information in the world, and particularly the onslaught that social media commands.
What I have come to understand is that I desire connection and presence in my life, which seems to be harder to find in the digital age. Yet, the glimmers of it are there.
For me, this usually happens in longer-form content.
Reading a blog post with a dog sleeping in my lap. Watching a silent vlog of Japan with my partner as we plan our future trip. Listening to a knitting podcast while casting on my own stitches.
There is a common thread of slowness to this consumption, and I wonder if perhaps that is the key.
The pace of consumption while I am on social media is unsustainable.
I’m burning out from being on socials, which keeps me doom scrolling in the apps, which never leaves me with enough space to actually feel the connection and presence I long for.
I am tired.
There are a thousand different reasons a person might choose to stay on social media, and I’m not here to argue the morality of personal choices.
What I feel is a collective shift starting to happen, as we become more fed-up with the billionaire, bootstrapping madness and rise of narcissistic psychopaths, we are starting to decide what is giving us life and what is slowly seeping it away. The next logical step is to take action towards what we do want.
Like my coffee that inevitably goes cold in the morning, I can only microwave it so many times before it just gets old.
How many times can I tell myself “I don’t like being on here” and then justify why I’m staying, before I just try something else?
Maybe it will be horrible. Maybe I will hate it here, too.
But I’d like to at least try. The world is too big and too wonderful to waste anymore time giving my precious, wild life to an app that destroys my sense of self.
I’m feeling ready to pour that sad coffee down the drain. I’m tired of trying to give it new life. I’ll just make a cup of tea.
This blog is my tea.
If you followed along for my messy metaphor–hello~ *finger waves*
On this blog I will be posting about living an intentional, slow, somatic-led life as I am on a path of embodying vitality, authenticity, and creativity. My hope is to inspire others to live their creative, weird, and deeply human lives to the fullest by sharing pieces of my own.
This will be my slice of haven on the internet. My attempt to share what brings me joy, wonder, and hope in the world. Perhaps a last ditch effort to see if it’s even possible to be on the internet without getting overwhelmed and burned out.
I honestly don’t know what will come of it, but I’m willing to follow my curiosity and try.
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