We all need a technological detox; we need to throw away our phones and computers instead of using them as our pseudo-defence system for anything that comes our way. We need to be bored and not have anything to use to shield the boredom away from us. We need to be lonely and see what it is we really feel when we are. If we continue to distract ourselves so we never have to face the realities in front of us, when the time comes and you are faced with something bigger than what your phone, food, or friends can fix, you will be in big trouble.
Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o__lock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness. Once or twice she has been known to pick up the phone to check that it isn__ broken. Sometimes she thinks how nice it would be to be woken by a call in the night: __et in a taxi now_ or __ need to see you, we need to talk_. But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel _ independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.
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Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o__lock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness. Once or twice she has been known to pick up the phone to check that it isn__ broken. Sometimes she thinks how nice it would be to be woken by a call in the night: __et in a taxi now_ or __ need to see you, we need to talk_. But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel _ independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.
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