Technology gets blamed for everything—our short attention spans, our wasted hours, our inability to sit in silence for more than ten seconds without checking our phones. But technology isn’t the problem.
It just makes it really easy to be aimless.
When you know what you want, technology is a tool. It helps you learn faster, connect better, and build things that matter. But if you don’t know what you want, technology fills the gap. It floods you with distractions, suggestions, and algorithms that quietly nudge you into spending your life consuming instead of creating.
Left unchecked, it will decide what’s important for you. What to buy, what to want, what to care about. And the scariest part? You won’t even notice.
I’ve spent hours scrolling through fitness content, watching people train, thinking, Yes! This is so inspiring! And yet, when it was time to put on my running shoes? Suddenly, my phone needed checking. Again. And again.
Technology didn’t make that decision. I did. But it made avoidance so effortless that I barely had to think about it.
It’s easy to believe we’re in control. That we can stop anytime. But the truth is, unless we’re intentional, we’re just passengers.
So the real question isn’t whether technology is bad. It’s whether we’re using it—or it’s using us.
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