Full Days and the Long Walk

It’s in feeling all the above that I’ve come more and more to believe that (trigger warning: lots of loaded words incoming): It’s impossible to be “authentic” (to maintain some kind of “core integrity”) or to access anything resembling “true creativity” when plugged into social media. Social media destroys whatever it is I feel out, alone, in the middle of a big walk, connecting with people, writing, looking closer and closer still at the world (not the train-wreck version of the world; the world as it is in front of my eyes which is often magnificent and beautiful, full of kindness and compassion).

Not all of us can take the types of walks Mod takes, but I do think that in the day-to-day there is a lot we can do to create space for thinking and creating. I do that by walking and running without headphones and it’s me and my thoughts alone and I have no phone with me. This is a small way, in my daily life, that I leave things behind for a bit.