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Pull to Refresh and 7 Ways To Push Back
Pull to refresh. Swipe to refresh. Swipe up. Scroll. Scroll. Pull. Scroll.
Sounds like a typical day? Me too. But why does it all happen? Why do we keep doing the same things, looking for the same things to happen. Even more so these days when almost all of us are stuck at home. I’m no psychologist by any means but lately, I have been thinking a lot about this and so I was prompted to share my story and ways I have found that helps.
Over the past year or so, a typical routine for me would involve the following: get up, stop the alarm, scroll for an hour,(some work scattered here and there), feel even worse, to begin with, and then finally force myself to get up, go sit somewhere else and get back to scrolling. The fact that everything I like spending my time on requires a digital device does not help. I'm a programmer, a coder, and an avid reader. Oops.
What if you are nothing like me? Well. Just notice how long you spend doing the same anyway :)
Before we do go on, let us first try to define an ideal situation. It always helps to know our questions before we start looking for answers. Here is what we aim to do.
We are not trying to remove technology from our lives. That would not exactly help and would be more of an escape from the question instead. What we truly seek is…
