There are endless distractions out there, and if we fail to moderate what is distracting us and consuming our precious time, we will spend our lives beholden to this (overwhelmingly life wasting) noise.
When Thoreau was saying he wanted to live simply so that he could suck the marrow out of life, in the 1800s no less, he set himself up in the woods. He removed the comparatively scant distractions at the time. Our task is much greater.
Don’t wake up old and immobile and wonder where it all went. It went to Instagram and TikTok and Facebook and meme texts and parties you didn’t want to attend and so on. Actively ignore distractions so you can architect and live something magical.
