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Your problem isn't that you can get broadband everywhere, it's that you want to regulate the lives of the people around you for some reason. You, yourself, are
by jtriangle 3y ago
Your problem isn't that you can get broadband everywhere, it's that you want to regulate the lives of the people around you for some reason.
You, yourself, are free to live more or less however you please. You are not free, in any way, to regulate the lives of people around you. If your happiness depends on the people around you behaving according to your rules/values/etc, then you'll be profoundly unhappy regardless of them checking their instagram.
Which is funny, because you can't manage to regulate yourself, but, you desire to regulate other people, as though you are at all qualified to do so. The reality is, you're only qualified to make people as miserable as you are.
And while I don't disagree that, people being overly connected is a huge problem, and a general cancer that's eating humanity itself, I understand that it's not my job to save the world, only myself, and once that's sorted out, I might be able to save a few people around me that I hold dear. Anything broader than that has one outcome, and that's failure, not just for myself, but also the people I care about the most.
What you need to do is disconnect-in-place, you don't need a forest or a mountain or an ocean to do that, you can do it right now, spin yourself down, feel yourself breathe, clear your head. You'll suck at it at first, as you have sucked at many things you're now good at, embrace the suck, and get to it, stop basing your wellbeing on things rightfully outside of your control.