There’s a strange kind of heaviness that comes from being online all the time. We scroll through other people’s lives — weddings, breakups, job promotions, new homes, babies, deaths — all within a few minutes. Things that once used to be shared personally, in confidence or warmth, are now just posts in our feed. And somewhere in the middle of all that, I started thinking: if you weren’t told directly, you weren’t supposed to know.
That sentence hit me hard because it’s true. We are constantly seeing pieces of people’s lives that we were never meant to witness. I don’t need to know my classmate’s divorce, my colleague’s vacation, or a stranger’s grief — unless they want me to know. But social media doesn’t care about that. It just feeds everything to everyone.
It makes us believe that we’re staying “connected,” but in reality, we’re just consuming each other. We know too much, but we understand too little. We react, compare, and sometimes even start feeling bad about our own lives — all because of what we’ve seen through a screen.
That’s when the idea of a digital detox starts making sense. It’s not just about switching off your phone or deleting an app. It’s about getting your peace back. It’s about unlearning the habit of checking who posted what, who got married, who went to Goa again, who’s living your “dream life.” Because honestly, none of that was ever meant to shape your emotions every morning.
When you step away from social media for a while, you start noticing small things again. The silence in your room doesn’t scare you anymore. Your own thoughts start sounding clearer. You start missing people in a real way — not just replying to their stories, but actually wanting to talk to them. And you realize how peaceful life feels when you only know what you’re meant to know.
So maybe that’s the point: if you weren’t told directly, you weren’t supposed to know.
You don’t need to know everything about everyone. You don’t have to keep up with the world every second. The people who truly matter will reach out, they’ll tell you what’s important. And the rest — you can let it go.
Quit the constant scroll. Log out for a bit. Let the world shrink back to the size of your own life. That’s where peace actually lives.
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