We used to lose ourselves in books for hours, we would take weeks to learn a new hobby.
Now we read hundreds of opinions and hot takes in minutes, we scroll through thousands of sound bites and fragments of information and hardly retain anything.
Everything worth living for happens when we learn to silence the noise and resist the distractions, when we slow down and regain the ability to focus - so we can pay attention to what actually matters.
So many enlightened masters have said something along the lines of “you become similar to the people you associate with” which is the best argument against not just mindlessly death scrolling on social media and reading the thoughts and opinions of hundreds of psychologically unwell strangers a day I’ve ever heard
As long as your intentions are pure, stop stressing over people or outcomes. Trust that you’ll always end up where you’re meant to be. What’s meant for you won’t miss you, and what leaves you was never your loss. Respectfully.