Your article in The Times looks so good! I can only get a preview, the full article is private for members. If you have a gift link for readers - please post it. I would love to read it, I am also 35 and feeling the same way. It would be great to hear your take on the reality we're living.
I've been charging my phone in the living room for a couple years now. It was a hard shift but once you're used to it, you won't even notice it being a bother. Oh and super cute cushion! xx
Lauren, thank you for such a lovely comment! I am sorry, I don't have a gift link for the article but I was basically saying in it that I've witnessed how botox has gone from being something reserved for the rich and famous to a tweakment beloved of the masses - and that among my friends it really is treated as casually as getting your nails and your hair done. And I don't have any moral issue with that but it has rather taken me by surprise to look around me and feel like everyone else is getting anti-wrinkle injections to the point that it feels de rigeur now. And I'm not sure that's a great thing - like I don't think we should feel like we 'have' to get botox, you know?
Ooh I'm glad to hear the phone in the living room stuck for you and thank you for the compliments on the cushion! Every time I look at it, I feel happy! x
Thank you so much for the recap Isolde! Really appreciate that and I agree with your statements. I find myself flip-flopping between "maybe I should just jump on board and do this injection thing" and also "no, this doesn't feel right for me". It seems like a slippery slope.
You are right, social media could be both bad and good when taken to the extreme. Just like you said, very similar to dieting and food in general. Do you remember those horrible shows where they swapped two very different people's food intake for a week? At the beginning they dumped all their meals into a tube just to shock the audience. This is a bit like finding out about your average device usage or seeing your battery drained before noon. I know I can't just leave cookies around the house or I'll eat them without even enjoying them, similarly I hide social network shortcuts into folders tucked away from my home screen. It gives me more chances to re-think my next move. A concept that helped me was imagining all the articles, videos, and snippets of content we consume after the alarm goes off as actual people crowding our bedroom, and we haven't even gotten out of bed yet!
Your article in The Times looks so good! I can only get a preview, the full article is private for members. If you have a gift link for readers - please post it. I would love to read it, I am also 35 and feeling the same way. It would be great to hear your take on the reality we're living.
I've been charging my phone in the living room for a couple years now. It was a hard shift but once you're used to it, you won't even notice it being a bother. Oh and super cute cushion! xx
Lauren, thank you for such a lovely comment! I am sorry, I don't have a gift link for the article but I was basically saying in it that I've witnessed how botox has gone from being something reserved for the rich and famous to a tweakment beloved of the masses - and that among my friends it really is treated as casually as getting your nails and your hair done. And I don't have any moral issue with that but it has rather taken me by surprise to look around me and feel like everyone else is getting anti-wrinkle injections to the point that it feels de rigeur now. And I'm not sure that's a great thing - like I don't think we should feel like we 'have' to get botox, you know?
Ooh I'm glad to hear the phone in the living room stuck for you and thank you for the compliments on the cushion! Every time I look at it, I feel happy! x
Thank you so much for the recap Isolde! Really appreciate that and I agree with your statements. I find myself flip-flopping between "maybe I should just jump on board and do this injection thing" and also "no, this doesn't feel right for me". It seems like a slippery slope.
You are right, social media could be both bad and good when taken to the extreme. Just like you said, very similar to dieting and food in general. Do you remember those horrible shows where they swapped two very different people's food intake for a week? At the beginning they dumped all their meals into a tube just to shock the audience. This is a bit like finding out about your average device usage or seeing your battery drained before noon. I know I can't just leave cookies around the house or I'll eat them without even enjoying them, similarly I hide social network shortcuts into folders tucked away from my home screen. It gives me more chances to re-think my next move. A concept that helped me was imagining all the articles, videos, and snippets of content we consume after the alarm goes off as actual people crowding our bedroom, and we haven't even gotten out of bed yet!