My phone makes me almost feel alive
Why are so attracted to the screens? One reason might be that we’re actually searching for the aliveness of things. Let me expand on this.
In nature when you’re outside everything moves and changes, there’s always movement. The bugs, the wind, the birds, the sunshine. There is always something going on. However, when you’re inside the house, in a room nothing seems to change, everything is inanimate, and so we search for this little thing that feels alive. That has a lot of things going on.
Also, a lot of things in the phone are connected in our brain messaging friends, checking emails, taking pictures, journaling. A lot of things are combined in the brain and connected to the phone. It has core human needs like connection feeling useful, belonging, self-exploration, information. Everything is connected in one device, that makes it even more attractive.
But that sort of creates a conclusion that we are actually disconnected from the liveliness from things that are alive and will be seeking is to feel alive again because we’ve been disconnected from our bodies. We are just experiencing the mental experience of what we can see on a screen, which creates the illusion that we think we experience life. But we actually don’t. When we’re outside in nature, that’s where life happens with its discomfort and with its ever-changing nature.