Scrolling other people’s adventures is a nice way to lose the one you’re supposed to be having.

Watching is designed to feel close enough to doing that you do not notice the swap. The footage is edited, the hard parts are cut, and an hour goes by in which somebody else had the experience and you had the feed. The cost is not a moral one. It is just that the time was real and the adventure belonged to someone else.

Take one thing off the feed and put it in the week. The hike, the recipe, the route, the sport you keep watching clips of. Badly and in person beats beautifully and on a screen.