The Benefits Of (Sometimes) Switching Off

Turn off the apps and tabs you aren’t using, log out of social media, and let the noise just… stop for a while.

Hooman beans aren’t meant for screens — not 24 hours a day, anyways.

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I’m not saying ‘turn off the evils of technology and become one with the universe’ or whatever the latest anti-tech line is.

(Side note: these lines always seem to be spouted online. #JustSaying.)

Technology is a tool. An exceptionally useful one for so many people.

But you don’t hammer nails all day, every day, do you? (Wait… do you?)

Even the most fervent lumberjack has to put down the axe every now and then. (Axe… chainsaw… I don’t know wtf they’re using — ask them!)

And in this world we’re living in…

I think maybe we need to step away from the noise, from the news, from the constant stream of bad sh** that’s going down in the world.

At least a little bit.

No, I’m not saying you should ignore the world’s problems —…