Simple Times, Slower Living

Recently, my therapist has been telling me that I need to lean more into my right brain and relax a bit on the left side. I felt like it was the permission I needed to let myself be. So now, I am trying to just 'be'. Hardest thing after almost a whole life of ‘doing’.

I have forgotten how to just do nothing and let my thoughts wander. I have forgotten what it is to not have constant background noise of either YouTube or Spotify or TikTok or Instagram.

Maybe we will have less cases of ADHD if we train our minds to focus rather than just keep swiping over 15 seconds content all day long. It is not normal to hear so many opinions of so many idiots around the world. Everyone has a platform to spew whatever nonsense they are thinking.

I want to go back to the days of reading newspapers and in which the opinions were written out by eloquent people who made you think rather than rage bait you for likes or comments.

I want to be a part of a community where we discuss rather than argue. We can agree to disagree because you know what? It’s not that deep. I want to also not have to use nouns as verbs.  The “dress” is not “dressing”. The degradation of language, I feel, is symptom of the degradation of society itself.

Let us keep our words diverse, my minds luxurious and our prose romantic. Let us bring back the age of writing a note by hand, posting a letter and reading books for pleasure. Let us listen more than we talk. Let us care more about being kind, compassionate, and civil than being right or winning.