On wanting to escape
It's been looking for half an hour or so that there was a storm coming so I made a coffee and sat outside waiting.
Storms have always given me the urge to be outside, to feel nature. Storms give me that urge more than a beautiful day does - maybe it's because they are so fleeting. The chance passes so quickly.
I saw a post a couple of weeks ago from someone who is giving up being online. He's now working in a shop. The post was a photo of a letter typed up using a typewriter. A photo that was then cropped, filtered, and posted across multiple socials.
But I like that content. The people who give up on modern life. Whether it's using a dumbphone, living on a farm, moving 1000km away from anyone else. Their motivations, but mostly how they achieved it.
I think a lot of us have a similar dream. We want to escape the clutches of modern technology. But we also want to tell everyone about it. We want a static site free from modern clickbait, but we want the discover feed and the analytics.
We want to live like 20 years ago, but we don't really remember how we filled entire days and weekends back then.
I'm not saying this to sound righteous. I really enjoy reading people exploring this contradiction.