To be able to handle the real connection, one has to be brave to face even the thinnest layer of attachment. One has to accept that a connection will bring both comfort and responsibility — that to only choose one means to make it not last.
things I would've noticed when i'm off the internet: smaller forms of everyday beauty.
There are many unspeakable parts of why disappearing from my online platform has helped me abundantly to find my long-searched inner connection. Partially because I'm still learning about it, that I will need more time to comprehend the current, newly-felt calmness around me. The other part, as I allowed myself to guess, is because there's this lively sense of liberty and self-given autonomy each time we look at our devices, thinking: "I can choose to spend my time with OR without you, and still feel good about myself." How liberating.