Ghosts in The Attic

First I think I’ll clarify, life where computers suddenly vanished would be chaos and we’d probably all die pretty quickly so good thing I don’t feel like spiraling into that hypothetical scenario.

Honestly, I have no idea what I would do. I consider my phone and to an extent my tv a computer since I really only watch YouTube and I listen to a lot of streaming platforms. I don’t even think I own a device to play physical media anymore so that would be a lot of quiet time, I suppose. Maybe a last ditch idea would be to listen to the radio but, ew.

I’d be panicked and nervous at first. Like when you keep checking the fridge as if something new will appear that you didn’t see the first fifteen times you checked. But I think I’d eventually settle into reading a lot and working on my art.

One of my biggest complaints about technology is the ability to manage my time and concentrate that it has stolen from me. Granted I have willingly given it to so many apps and platforms, many under the guise of doing good things like learning.

The loss of Google Maps would be significant to me. I spend much more time than you would expect the average person to spend looking at maps. I would probably permanently station myself at the library or Barnes and Noble so that I could go find as many geography and science books I could get my hands on.

I would continue to be a proprietor of mostly useless or niche information, but now I would also be gifted with the lost art of rapidly being able to sift through books looking for just the right string of information and knowing how to effectively skim pages.

Maybe I’d start exercising. More likely I would read about exercising, then maybe do it. I’m really big on the grandiose plans but no follow through character build. I’ve almost maxed out those stats.

I can imagine that I would become like an obnoxious vegan telling everyone I see with a cell phone or computer how unhealthy it was and that my life is sooooo much better without it. I would be gaslighting myself though, because my raw book and idea diet will be mostly unfulfilling. It’s only useful if everyone else around me is doing it too, or else it’s like trying to quit smoking when everyone around you chain smokes. You get a couple strong willpower days then you just fall back into the same patterns comforted and defeated by the fact that you can’t escape it.