broke my phone, day 5: The Great Outdoors

cons:

- can't tell the time or look up my calendar
- no access to maps or public transport information
- can't buy tasty foodstuffs without cash
- can't shut out the room when too loud or excessively chatty

pros:

- no social media
- no news
- no email
- no calls
- no podcasts
- no notifications
- no messed up digital marketing patterns trying to trick, shame and embarrass me into buying something
- can't impulsively buy useless crap
- extra energy
- less anxiety
- can hear my own thoughts
- thoughts are actually worth hearing sometimes
- can hear the poems breaching from the void again
- feeling like "maybe I should start carrying a book again"
- using the writing tools I've always cherished but stopped and still carried all along perhaps because some part of me was rooting for the cursed little snitch to shatter
- noticing the world around not just because of something alarming
- living and non-living beings of all species and kinds existing as more than detached glimpses of the matrix interspersed with the doubly virtual
- the "idle" state is now space to recollect thoughts, remember what needs doing, what is next, and how to handle it
- exposure therapy to life itself
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