Shailaja

“Henry Thoreau said that we don’t own things; things own us. Every new object—whether it’s a home, a car, a television, or a fancy phone like that one—is something more we must carry on our backs.”
― Stephen King, If It Bleeds

“One of life's challenging realizations is that sometimes you outgrow your friends.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Has social media made us socially obese—gorged on constant connection but never properly nourished?”
― Michael Harris, Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World

“At the end of that Roger Ebert essay, he says he decided to force himself to do the reading that he knew, deep down, his brain wanted and needed. When he gave himself the proper literary diet (and found a room in the house where his Wi-Fi connection failed), “I felt a kind of peace. This wasn’t hectic. I wasn’t skittering around here and there. I wasn’t scanning headlines and skimming pages and tweeting links. I was reading. . . . Maybe I can rewire my brain, budge it back a little in the old direction.”
― Michael Harris, The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection