I always say that the moment we won't have electricity/internet, and that time is much closer than most people would like to believe, we're going to see throngs of people, both adult and young, jumping off from rooftops because they've never known or were taught how to fill the empty vessel by bucolic means.
I had so hoped that Elayna’s takeaway was that they should just stop doing it. The endless cycle of content creation seems like a trap impossible to get out of. The fact that they’re continuing to create content rather than just throwing in the towel reads is evidence of this toxic relationship.
Jun 1, 2023·edited Jun 1, 2023Liked by Carmella Guiol
Wow, what a story, so powerfully told. Thanks.
I'm relatively new to sharing my life on camera, which I'm doing to share my journeys to healthy living in Israel, but already can so identify with the potential perils.
For that reason, when I went on a 3 day hike alone a few weeks ago to rejuvenate my worn out soul, I stayed mostly offline, and didn't edit or post anything until the week after I got back. It really helps that I have 2 physical phones: a cheap Android for calls and internet, and an iPhone for pics and videos that connects only with Wifi. My online phone phone stayed in my knapsack, and the camera phone was really just that, a camera.
I also really tried not to capture every single moment on camera (just the reaaaaalllly important ones....).
And I haven't even yet written about the trip on Substack, maybe the week after next.
Setting this chronological distance between life and work helps to foster an emotional separation too.
Once I’m at it, here’s my camp the last night out, overlooking a canyon in the southwest corner of the Golan Heights. On the other edge of the far ridge is a steep drop the the Sea of Galilee.
I always say that the moment we won't have electricity/internet, and that time is much closer than most people would like to believe, we're going to see throngs of people, both adult and young, jumping off from rooftops because they've never known or were taught how to fill the empty vessel by bucolic means.
I had so hoped that Elayna’s takeaway was that they should just stop doing it. The endless cycle of content creation seems like a trap impossible to get out of. The fact that they’re continuing to create content rather than just throwing in the towel reads is evidence of this toxic relationship.
What a story. Thank you for sharing it.
Wow, what a story, so powerfully told. Thanks.
I'm relatively new to sharing my life on camera, which I'm doing to share my journeys to healthy living in Israel, but already can so identify with the potential perils.
For that reason, when I went on a 3 day hike alone a few weeks ago to rejuvenate my worn out soul, I stayed mostly offline, and didn't edit or post anything until the week after I got back. It really helps that I have 2 physical phones: a cheap Android for calls and internet, and an iPhone for pics and videos that connects only with Wifi. My online phone phone stayed in my knapsack, and the camera phone was really just that, a camera.
I also really tried not to capture every single moment on camera (just the reaaaaalllly important ones....).
And I haven't even yet written about the trip on Substack, maybe the week after next.
Setting this chronological distance between life and work helps to foster an emotional separation too.
Once I’m at it, here’s my camp the last night out, overlooking a canyon in the southwest corner of the Golan Heights. On the other edge of the far ridge is a steep drop the the Sea of Galilee.
Woof. There are so many layers here, but being owned by the marketplace sounds like a unique type of hell/prison. So abstract, so powerful.