So so happy to see you write more here. This is exactly why I shifted to substack (your post about our strolls in Jodhpur was one of reason I converted to it). You will only feel more lighter. Much less pressure. Instagram and facebook makes you feel like we have to be active in every issue at all times, we don’t. We need to be more active in our lives. That’s what I have learnt.
I am literally writing a post, as I type this, about how instagram and whatsapp is pushing my dad away from me. Since retiring from work, he has been continuously on his phone and the whatsapp groups here in India spew a lot of hate and also needless information which just keeps a mind busy and not productive. I wonder how much time it will take for people here (the third world) who have got the technologies so late - to understand them fully and to use them to their benefit rather than the technology using them.
I am so lucky to have a few friends who are like me who bring me back to being “normal” and remind me whenever I am getting dragged into it. Like you said, it is a hell hole and youngsters (even though they look smart because they know a thing or two about it) aren’t an exception. They aren’t immune to it. We should actually think of writing a guest post for each other’s substack on this topic! That’d be interesting.
*Sorry this got too long. Its still 10 minutes since I’ve gotten up.
I love this response - even though I don't know very well this seems to be very 'you'! You always write from the heart and with such honesty. I am sorry to hear about your Dad - that's hard. No one is immune but I have heard that there are some young people (like you) who are actively moving away from phone centric life. It's a hard thing to do in this world, wherever you are.
I'd love you to do a guest post on my substack, and vice versa - let's make a plan!
I hope the frequency of your blogs will not diminish too much, Betty. Yours are just the sort of light, inconsequential chatter that is the perfect antidote to the dreary, all-pervasive and depressing violence that fills our screens. Keep going.
A lovely piece. As always. I don't use Instagram because I don't understand it or how it works which says all you need to know about me and tech. I am happy that we can see the atrocities of our leaders and call them out for it. But juxtaposed on FB or Instagram with frolicking cats just makes it another meme and further desensitises us to the shock. Well said honey.
Really enjoy reading your Substack- I wish my comments were as eloquent as your writings. X
Thank you, I suspect there will be more if I can stay away from instagram! And your eloquence is in your designs xx
Im glowing after reading that 😊
a little dopamine hit for your Friday! (and it's totally true) x
❤️
So so happy to see you write more here. This is exactly why I shifted to substack (your post about our strolls in Jodhpur was one of reason I converted to it). You will only feel more lighter. Much less pressure. Instagram and facebook makes you feel like we have to be active in every issue at all times, we don’t. We need to be more active in our lives. That’s what I have learnt.
I am literally writing a post, as I type this, about how instagram and whatsapp is pushing my dad away from me. Since retiring from work, he has been continuously on his phone and the whatsapp groups here in India spew a lot of hate and also needless information which just keeps a mind busy and not productive. I wonder how much time it will take for people here (the third world) who have got the technologies so late - to understand them fully and to use them to their benefit rather than the technology using them.
I am so lucky to have a few friends who are like me who bring me back to being “normal” and remind me whenever I am getting dragged into it. Like you said, it is a hell hole and youngsters (even though they look smart because they know a thing or two about it) aren’t an exception. They aren’t immune to it. We should actually think of writing a guest post for each other’s substack on this topic! That’d be interesting.
*Sorry this got too long. Its still 10 minutes since I’ve gotten up.
I love this response - even though I don't know very well this seems to be very 'you'! You always write from the heart and with such honesty. I am sorry to hear about your Dad - that's hard. No one is immune but I have heard that there are some young people (like you) who are actively moving away from phone centric life. It's a hard thing to do in this world, wherever you are.
I'd love you to do a guest post on my substack, and vice versa - let's make a plan!
Perfect. Let’s work on it!!
I hope the frequency of your blogs will not diminish too much, Betty. Yours are just the sort of light, inconsequential chatter that is the perfect antidote to the dreary, all-pervasive and depressing violence that fills our screens. Keep going.
William
Thank you - if anything they will increase as I will spend less time on instagram compositions!
Kind words - much appreciated.
A lovely piece. As always. I don't use Instagram because I don't understand it or how it works which says all you need to know about me and tech. I am happy that we can see the atrocities of our leaders and call them out for it. But juxtaposed on FB or Instagram with frolicking cats just makes it another meme and further desensitises us to the shock. Well said honey.
On food and literature, have you read Laura Freeman’s The Reading Cure? I go back to it whenever my relationship with food feels a little bit wobbly.
I haven’t come across that - I’ll look for it. X