My roommate and I put our phones in a drawer every evening at 8pm to be more present but now we just sit there awkwardly not knowing how to fill the time and sometimes we cheat and retrieve them early. We used to have better conversations when we naturally put our phones down instead of forcing it.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people discovered that manufactured presence cannot replace the organic rhythms of genuine connection.
“Where Are You with Digital detox and its limits?”
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