Our phones. They’re constantly pinging, buzzing, flashing. ‘Breaking News!’ ‘Your friend just liked a picture!’ ‘Reminder: breathe.’ It’s relentless! It’s like we’ve all signed up to be constantly interrupted. And for what? Do I really need to know that Brenda from high school just posted a photo of her cat? Is that ‘breaking news’? My phone is essentially a small, insistent child demanding my attention every five minutes. I miss the days when a phone just… rang. And you decided if you wanted to answer it. Now, it’s less ‘phone’ and more ‘digital overlord.’
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