The Offline Experience
Intimacy. Privacy. Softness.
Detaching yourself from the digital world is a jarring experience. The sweetest melody would ring “MAKE MONEY ONLINE.” Then you’ll be back, being a user, hoping to become a Messiah of profit. (content creator)
But once you spend a beautiful summer day dilly-dallying without your phone, clock, or any screens, your appetite changes. Greed starts to settle in, and now the digital experience has been removed from the menu. The chalice opens time and space.
Of course, you second-guess yourself. But through these “failures”, you begin to notice two phenomena.
You are kinder, softer, and more open to the world around you. Comfort becomes a texture that you crave daily. Here, a positive mindset can bloom.
The second phenomenon is the absence of “the audience.” It is one part of the “noise” inside our heads, other people’s opinions. The other aspect is the stage we perform on aka the status bar. We want to acknowledge our internal movement with digital vanity metrics.
But we can abandon this soulless landscape. We can recover our empathy, feel experiences more spiritually, and consume slowly.
Try it, start slow, but one day your taste will change. During this period, we encourage everyone to “ENTER THE DARKNESS” to find their true nature.
Here is the doom bit. The internet will become hell itself. Fill of cruelty and hate. Why? A global economic event is stressful for everyone. I can’t fathom making the enemy of every single person on the internet. Since I don’t want to hate the world. I’m logging off.
I hope to seek a network at a smaller scale, one where intimacy, respect, privacy, and curiosity are a given. Welcome to the era of physical spaces. For those of us ready to play other games.
