4 posts published by Mehret Biruk during March 2023| time spent offline
(Sorry, social media followers don’t count.) Accept failure. I’m browsing at my favourite shop with my best friend. “Girl, look at you!” I look up beaming. Compliments from …| time spent offline
Some evenings, filled with terror from witnessing another day— time— passing me by nonchalantly, and unwilling to escape my emotional discomfort with Netfixes and digital pacifiers, I turn to my mo…| time spent offline
The benefits of reading are countless and impressive. Reading involves several of our brain functions, including visual and auditory processes, phonemic awareness, fluency, and comprehension. …| time spent offline
I write this post with delight. The day is still young— 10:18am on a Saturday to be exact. I sit at one of the computers at the public library and write these words. Before this, I have already had…| time spent offline
I am on the Internet. In fact, I write this blog post and publish it online to share with whoever may read it because of the Internet. My work, an absolute dream come true, also requires me to be o…| time spent offline
I recently bought an analog alarm clock in a desperate attempt to fix my sleep schedule. “Did it wake you up?” I asked innocently; “It woke the neighbors up,” he responded. …| time spent offline
“Whagwan, sweetie!” It’s a Friday night, I’m downtown walking to catch the streetcar while fumbling with the Hoopla app on my phone to find a song that has randomly started playing in m…| time spent offline
“I wouldn’t stand there if I were you,” I’m waiting for the streetcar with my AirPods blasting Drake. I pull one of them out instinctively; the music pauses and I step off t…| time spent offline
“Babe, what’s the passcode?” I ask coyly. I’m prepared for war if I don’t get what I want: The passcode I asked him to set to turn my smartphone into a dumb phone, and…| time spent offline
As someone who has spent the better part of the past six years without social media, I can make bold claims like most of us would be better off if social media didn’t exist: Socially, psychological…| time spent offline