Angry and curious

In which I contemplate why I still compulsively check my email????????????

And there’s no remedy/ For memory

Hi there,

When the first time spent offline post went online on December 2020, when I first began my time spent offline journey in earnest— for no other good reason than I simply believed we would all be better off offline— I was lost and angry. (Lost and angry is no way to go through life.) I stood in the margins and dared life to do what she pleases with me. I was still a child. Maybe I still am; What do I know? Enough to know I know nothing. Enough to know a thing or two that could save you too.

Five things to share:

1. After almost seven years spent without social media, without the news, and a dumb smartphone— a radically disconnected existence in a digitally caffeinated world— I still psychologically crave the validation of the online world. I check my email too often and I glance at my phone too many times desperately hoping for notification dopamine: No Older Notifications. I used to hate myself for this. Stupid, stupid, stupid girl! I get curious now. Why?

2. Old prints make for good screensavers:

On Self-Respect: Joan Didion’s 1961 Essay from the Pages of Vogue

3. A quote I want to share with you:

   I am angry and curious. These two things propel me forward.

   — Henry Rollins

   Seek the opposite of what angers you!!!!!!!

4. I’m really enjoying listening to the radio lately. Something about not having the option to skip, skip, skip; and I usually like having my options.

5. A challenge for you: Be angry and curious.

P.s.

Lost and happy

That’s all for this week!

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Until next time,

Mehret