When you shut off all media, TV, social feeds, news apps, even the endless notifications, you cut off the artificial extensions of reality. What’s left is only what your senses encounter: the people in your presence, the conversations you’re having, the work at hand, the street outside your window, the air you breathe.
Media, by design, amplifies, distorts, and prioritizes events far away. It convinces you those distant things are urgent, even when they don’t touch your actual life. But if you withdraw from that stream, those narratives vanish. They only “exist” again once you re-engage.
It’s a reminder that your immediate surroundings carry more truth and weight than the mediated noise. The world in front of you, the tangible, the lived, is what actually matters.
Read a book and see what your mind sees.
See the world before you.
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