Hello, comrades. I’m here for your suggestions.
As the title says, I have been having a really hard time trying to read texts. I just find it very hard to concentrate on large text. I used to love reading, but all the years spent in the education system and having to read/study for lessons that I don’t really care for made me (or, most probably, my brain) dislike reading, and I still haven’t fully overcome that state of mind. I start to read a book, but I can’t keep reading for long. Also I’m easily getting distracted (surely a trait that I picked up while being on social media), so practically reading any book or long text, even if I find it really interesting or useful, gets even harder and progress may slow down to < 10 pages a day at times.
So, has anything like that ever occured to you? How did you overcome it? Thank you for reading this, comments will be appreciated.
Edit: Thank you for all the replies! It seems like many comrades went through something similar and I appreciate your replies.
I feel like an angsty boomer when I get mad at tech companies siphoning off our attention with no regulation or pushback. No one generally seems to give a shit. I have started to really hate my phone over the past few years. One day I am gonna switch over to one of those dumbphones. While a cool piece of technology, smartphones have had a net negative effect on my life I feel.
I’ve been resentful of this for years because I see it in myself. One thing I did a while back that led a huge quality of life improvement was to just keep my phone in do not disturb mode as the default. The only thing I get notified of are actual phone calls which happen once in a blue moon. This way I can engage with the phone when I feel like it, instead of it constantly bugging me.
Have you ever had the feeling of “phantom vibrations”? The only what I can feel free of the burden of my phone is when I know for sure that it has been switched off (or as you mentioned in a do not disturb setting but I have not taken advantage of it yet). Don’t wanna get too dramatic but it feels really bad.
Oh yeah, that has happened to me before. It makes you realize just how attached to your phone you end up becoming.