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Get away from screens. It's hard to focus on the here and now when the here and now is the soul-deadening sensory-less experience of sitting motionless staring

Get away from screens. It's hard to focus on the here and now when the here and now is the soul-deadening sensory-less experience of sitting motionless staring at a flat rectangle of pixels. Go out in the woods. Get your hands dirty. Meet friends at a bar and laugh until your stomach hurts. It's so much easier to be present in the moment when the moment is actually high fidelity and nourishing.

alganet 1y ago
Screens are awesome. They are the heir apparent to the fireplace. A very old human tradition and very cherished. Outside, right now, people stay on screens all the time. It's the same stuff. Why even bother? Humans plan ahead. We look towards the future and the past. Not all the time, but a lot of the time. This carpe diem stuff doesn't seem like the right way to approach the problem given our current technological society. Also, I'm not gonna party just because someone told me to.
- jajko 1y ago
  You do you, but lets say I don't agree with what you say at all. Quality of life and all. Since I do both sides its easy to compare short and long term effects and impact on quality of life and happiness, plus its trivial to look around and see exactly same stuff repeating all over with literally everybody. Suffice to say parent is correct, and you are not.
  - alganet 1y ago
    > long term effects and impact on quality of life and happiness Sounds like planning ahead. Exactly like I said. > literally everybody It lacks a further explanation. I don't know if you see that if you can't put it in your own words.
aaronbaugher 1y ago
I recently started doing a 5-4-3-2-1 grounding exercise, where you look around you and name 5 things you can see, touch and name 4 things you can touch, name 3 things you can hear, 2 you can smell, and 1 you can taste. I was surprised how different it felt to consciously see and touch things. It's not like I'm walking around my house with my eyes closed normally, but most of the time things aren't really registering. Stopping to intentionally focus for a second on an actual object or a sound I'm currently hearing seems to sort of wake me up, bring me out of a trance a little. Not as well as digging in the garden, but not bad for a few seconds in the middle of the work day.
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alganet 1y ago

Screens are awesome. They are the heir apparent to the fireplace. A very old human tradition and very cherished. Outside, right now, people stay on screens all the time. It's the same stuff. Why even bother? Humans plan ahead. We look towards the future and the past. Not all the time, but a lot of the time. This carpe diem stuff doesn't seem like the right way to approach the problem given our current technological society. Also, I'm not gonna party just because someone told me to.

jajko 1y ago
You do you, but lets say I don't agree with what you say at all. Quality of life and all. Since I do both sides its easy to compare short and long term effects and impact on quality of life and happiness, plus its trivial to look around and see exactly same stuff repeating all over with literally everybody. Suffice to say parent is correct, and you are not.
- alganet 1y ago
  > long term effects and impact on quality of life and happiness Sounds like planning ahead. Exactly like I said. > literally everybody It lacks a further explanation. I don't know if you see that if you can't put it in your own words.

aaronbaugher 1y ago

I recently started doing a 5-4-3-2-1 grounding exercise, where you look around you and name 5 things you can see, touch and name 4 things you can touch, name 3 things you can hear, 2 you can smell, and 1 you can taste. I was surprised how different it felt to consciously see and touch things. It's not like I'm walking around my house with my eyes closed normally, but most of the time things aren't really registering. Stopping to intentionally focus for a second on an actual object or a sound I'm currently hearing seems to sort of wake me up, bring me out of a trance a little. Not as well as digging in the garden, but not bad for a few seconds in the middle of the work day.

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