Not sure how old you are, exactly, but you make a lot of sense. I have to fight my biases against younger people (for various reasons). I guess one thing I'll never get over is the ease with which "they" accept (depend on) digital communication and social media. I experience anxiety if someone sends me a TikTok link on my phone, and I keep my phone free of that, of email and of Facebook. It's a PHONE, not a desktop computer! If I looked at everything that was sent to me I'd have NO TIME left in my life to do anything else. One thing I've noticed for sure: younger people do not talk or think about DEATH as much, haha. Most of them, anyway.
Hi Marilyn. I should start with how old I am in the essay, right? I'll add that. But I'm 55. I actually like having a lot of stuff on my phone, love tiktok, etc but also it does absorb SO MUCH time. I actually just bought a lockable timed box to put my phone in when I'm writing so I don't get distracted. For a long time I worked in a high school and sometimes the kids would be embarrassed by how easily they were distracted by their phone. I'd remind them "there's someone at the top of their game making a million dollars a year whose sole job is to make that app you're using hard to stop using. There's not something wrong with you, the problem is that the app is designed to distract you."
I think sometimes young folks are more afraid of death because they don't talk about it and therefore even more afraid and the cycle goes on. Even young folks who have seen a lot of trauma and a lot of death, if they don't talk about it, that must make it harder it seems to me. For me, I used to be afraid of death when I was younger. Now it seems restful. I mean at this theoretical level, with no current life threatening illnesses except for getting older.
Not sure how old you are, exactly, but you make a lot of sense. I have to fight my biases against younger people (for various reasons). I guess one thing I'll never get over is the ease with which "they" accept (depend on) digital communication and social media. I experience anxiety if someone sends me a TikTok link on my phone, and I keep my phone free of that, of email and of Facebook. It's a PHONE, not a desktop computer! If I looked at everything that was sent to me I'd have NO TIME left in my life to do anything else. One thing I've noticed for sure: younger people do not talk or think about DEATH as much, haha. Most of them, anyway.
Hi Marilyn. I should start with how old I am in the essay, right? I'll add that. But I'm 55. I actually like having a lot of stuff on my phone, love tiktok, etc but also it does absorb SO MUCH time. I actually just bought a lockable timed box to put my phone in when I'm writing so I don't get distracted. For a long time I worked in a high school and sometimes the kids would be embarrassed by how easily they were distracted by their phone. I'd remind them "there's someone at the top of their game making a million dollars a year whose sole job is to make that app you're using hard to stop using. There's not something wrong with you, the problem is that the app is designed to distract you."
I think sometimes young folks are more afraid of death because they don't talk about it and therefore even more afraid and the cycle goes on. Even young folks who have seen a lot of trauma and a lot of death, if they don't talk about it, that must make it harder it seems to me. For me, I used to be afraid of death when I was younger. Now it seems restful. I mean at this theoretical level, with no current life threatening illnesses except for getting older.
Thanks for the restock btw