Your Brain is Rotting Away, Babe; Connect him with Nature

Busyness and over-dependency on social media to meet their needs or just for entertainment make our lives unhappy and socially isolated. Wherever you go, you will find people busy relentlessly scrolling social media posts or videos. They have no valid arguments to justify their scrolling and smartphone addiction.

Thousands of children want to connect with their friends or struggle to meet with their parents, but social media prevents them from getting the natural dopamine.

My friend wrote me an email yesterday, and I want to show you something you have never heard: how we are trying to connect with friends.

This is the email he sent me, and his words are crying to everybody to give one day to themselves to connect with nature.

Hi, Peter

I can pray that you will be in a good mood, but here I am, living a boring and dull life. My days are void of a natural dose of dopamine, and I am fighting a war with my thoughts. No classical music, no true friends, no green leaves, no sunlight, and no birds and animals are in my life, and I am obsessed with social media and the internet. Can you imagine I paid $50 to somebody to spend a few hours with me? My lesson is that a wealthy life is to make true friends, take a deep sleep, enjoy by taking a fresh breath early in the morning, go for a long run, speak loudly to yourself, and forget everything that makes you sad and boring.

After reading this email, I changed my days and adopted some habits to make myself a nature-loving person.

I set up a reminder on my phone for one hour of screen time. By doing this, I spent fifteen days without a smartphone.

I spend a few hours daily with my friend, and our discussion is about understanding each other's feelings and problems. The most interesting thing is that we act like one body because we can understand each other better than anybody.

I have loved animals and birds since my childhood. In my room, dozens of parrots and pigeons heal my anxiety with their magical sound.

Reading, writing, and engaging with others’ problems made my soul merciful and kind to humanity.

I STARTED fucking to toxic people and things which made me unhappy.

I need love, and love is my final achievement. Therefore, the purpose of this post is to remind you to audit your days and ask yourself questions about your life. What kind of life are you living? Do you have a close friend or someone who can listen to you? Do you spend a few hours at the bank of a canal or river? Do you meet your loved ones and call them every Sunday?

If you are unable to answer these questions, it is my request to connect with nature.

The amount of dopamine you get by scrolling is not as long time than you enjoy by meeting with friends or reading, or writing.

Feeling restless but unmotivated. Like I’m electrified, but too numb to move on.

Constantly craving more content, hoping I stumble across even better content. Even if it’s so pointless that I forget about it the moment I get off it.

Finding it hard to enjoy slow or meaningful activities. It even got to the point where I was watching films on my laptop with my finger on the right arrow button to skip forward.