Introduction: Thirty Minutes of Scrolling, Nothing Chosen It’s Sunday evening, and somehow an hour has passed inside a streaming app without anything chosen. Open the streaming app, scroll for half an hour, close it without watching anything. Read review after…
Introduction: Full All Day, and Nothing Left by Morning Somewhere around 11pm, the third video ended and a fourth started without a decision to let it. Something was being watched all day. Listened to. Read. After getting home, more scrolling,…
Introduction: What “I Know Better But Can’t Change” Actually Means It’s 11pm, and somehow the same hour has disappeared into the same place it always does. The app opens again without a decision to open it. The same escape route…
Introduction: The Story That Was Already Running Somewhere between waking up and getting out of bed, the verdict had already been delivered. I always fail. I’m not the kind of person people warm to. I should be holding things together…
Introduction: It Had Already Started Before the Noticing Did Something in the chest. That was there, somewhere, through the meeting, through the commute home. And then, midway through dinner, something sharp came out that hadn’t been intended. The question afterward…
Introduction: Before “I Did It Again” Midnight, and somehow an order has already gone through for something that wasn’t needed. Irritation building until something sharp comes out toward someone at home. An app opened without any memory of deciding to…
Introduction: Before “I Did It Again” Five minutes late. That’s all it takes for the chest to tighten. A message left on read with no reply. That’s all it takes for the thought they must be avoiding me to start…
Introduction: When the World in Thirty Years Weighs More Than Tonight Reading about climate change and feeling the chest tighten at the thought of what the planet will look like after you are gone. Watching friends with children and feeling…
Introduction: What Is Actually Shaking When Certainty Shakes Posting with passion about a social issue, receiving the agreement of people who share your values. Making what feels like the ethical call at work, and feeling grounded in it. Then a…
Introduction: Stopping in Front of the Shelf Standing in front of the supermarket shelf, motionless. Organic. Fair trade. Locally sourced. Plastic-free. Every label is making a claim about the right choice. Nothing gets decided, and exhaustion is what comes home.…