My roommate and I decided to do a month without streaming services to break our binge-watching cycle and reconnect with slower pleasures, but now our evenings feel awkward and forced when we try to talk or read together. We used to flow around each other naturally but without our shows as background, we don't know how to share space and time.
More people experience this than they realize.
Removing familiar rhythms of consumption reveals how much you've relied on external stimulation to mediate the simple complexity of being together.
“Where Are You with Fasting and time — the reset?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.