Stop. Yes, YOU. The one reading this.
I know, you were this close to scrolling past.
Or maybe you’re already hovering over the little “X” to close the tab.
Because who has time for this nonsense, right?
Deadlines are looming.
People are watching.
Tasks piling up.
You’ve got to hustle — because that’s what’s expected.
If you don’t, your boss can’t go on their sixth vacation this year,
or your partner will remind you — again — of all the things you still haven’t done.
And on and on it goes.
But what if…
these few lines are exactly what you need right now?
What if, right here, right now,
you said to yourself:
“Stop. Just for a moment.”
Not for them. For you.
To take a breath.
To sit down — on the porch, in the grass, or anywhere that feels right.
Do you remember when these worries didn’t exist?
When your mind wasn’t buzzing with task lists and overdue to-dos?
Pause. Breathe.
Let go — just for a moment.
Your problems aren’t going anywhere.
They’ll wait.
They’ll still be hanging over you later.
But remember when they weren’t even around?
When your screen wasn’t your entire world?
Before the brightness burned your eyes, before the comment section made you question humanity,
before second-hand embarrassment became a daily emotion?
Go back.
Back to the memories you’ve probably forgotten.
Or buried deep.
Or maybe they were simply dusted over — by time, by routine, by life itself.
Like a sandstorm that shifts the shape of the entire landscape,
the storms of adulthood have buried those bright moments.
The pressure to keep up has hidden what once made you you.
Remember arguing with your siblings or cousins over which superhero was the coolest?
Remember flipping through basketball cards and trading them like sacred currency?
Or freaking out because someone just got the new PlayStation or PC game,
and planning when to crash their house and try it?
Or getting a Tamagotchi for Christmas and checking on your pixelated dino/dog/dolphin like it was your firstborn?
Or hopping on your bike and playing cops and robbers until the streetlights blinked on?
Yeah… you remember.
But you don’t have time to remember.
Because now everything’s dumped on your back and you’re just trying to survive.
I get it.
We’ve all fallen into this trap.
It’s suffocating.
We’ve forgotten how to live.
Forgotten how to talk.
Forgotten that there’s life beyond the glowing screens that blind us.
This tech — it’s a trickster.
It gives you freedom, and then locks the cage behind you.
People used to visit each other without glancing at their screens every 5 seconds,
waiting for a ping from some app they can’t even remember downloading.
We used to sit and actually talk.
Really talk.
With drinks. With snacks.
With presence.
And no push notifications stealing the moment.
The to-dos still existed —
they just didn’t consume us.
We weren’t drowning in input, and anxiety wasn’t our default state.
Now?
Now we sprint after our to-do lists while they sprint after us.
The more you check off, the more shows up.
And you don’t even have time to stop and ask:
How could I do this better? Easier?
How can I carve out just one breath of peace?
So…
Stop. Breathe.
Sort your thoughts.
Give yourself permission to step back —
to those simpler times.
You don’t need to be a kid again.
You just need to remember that life is meant to be lived.
Start now.
With a single breath.
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