>We are on our phones because the present moment is no longer somewhere we want to be I would correct this to "no longer somewhere we have to be". We were in

>We are on our phones because the present moment is no longer somewhere we want to be I would correct this to "no longer somewhere we have to be". We were in the present moment because we were forced to be. That's how it seems to go: people only do stuff that they themselves report wanting to do if they're actually forced to do it. See personal trainers.