The author reflects on how airplane travel, with its limited connectivity, offers a unique opportunity for disconnection from the constant digital stimulation of our daily lives. They compare the experience to the early days of the internet and the thrill of a limited connection, contrasting it with the demands of a smartphone-driven world.
We are surrounded by ways to pull us out of our inner life, to keep our thoughts shallow and feelings not fully explored
As the initial thrill of contact fades, it feels not like my friend and I had cracked a code of the modern era but that we’d broken a secret code. Smartphones make the harried and frazzled life of a full-time working parent just-about possible. Fifteen years ago I’d have had to give my whole Saturday morning over to the weekly shop instead of simply adding milk and butter to my virtual basket on my journey to work. Or I’d have to stay in the office late instead of answering urgent emails at my kitchen table while discussing river erosion over a fourth class geography book.
I pass a familiar-looking house and feel a jolt inside. I don’t reach for my phone. I remember my recently-passed vibrant sister. I hear her lovely laugh and smile. I feel her warm welcome. I know I’ve an emptiness at missing her. But most importantly I feel this.also brings me to this reposeful place. For 30 minutes there is just me and my strokes and the water. Surprising ideas enter my head, as if randomly out of nowhere.
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