Skip the feed

A news feed, social media feed or whatever feed makes me instantly skeptical. The name itself implies you are being fed something — turn off your brain and waste time... Anything that resembles a feed is in my experience useless. Except if you want to numb your existential pain — but there are better ways for that too, I think.

The passivity of it makes me allergic to feeds — the passivity is exactly what I think is bad about it. Anything I read while scrolling will not stay in the same way as something I read in a more thoughtful way, like a book I choose to read because I find the subject interesting. Additionally, I find my state of mind after a feed-session is not good nor bad. It’s just meh. Safe and boring describes it well.

We’re meant to partake in life. Do things. Learn how to be. So you can be better at it — and enjoy it more! This doesn’t happen in feed-land.

The lessons learned when doing regular things seem so simple but they are the most useful ones. When you engage in discussion, play games with friends or decide to go on a trip you force yourself to do things. That’s when you engage yourself fully because you have to. Richer experience leads to richer memory which leads to richer connections. And richer experience is in itself beautiful.