Thought provoking, well written, and a little heartbreaking.

Brilliant description of this crappy feeling:

“So when someone uses their phone instead of talking to you, it’s a multivariate rejection — it’s not that they could be doing several things, it’s that they could be doing several things with an infinite number of unknown people. How frustrating is that. It’s asymmetric. You are one person, and you’re being rejected by the possibility of everybody else.”

Then there’s the undertow…which feels scary.

“But then, in your pocket, you feel it, too: the pull of your own phone, of all those possible people, like an undertow.”

A world of intense connectivity has made me less connected to the world and to myself.

It’s time for me to rethink my position on the hamster wheel.

Thanks for posting.