The addiction to distraction.
The official drug of the modern age. Cocaine is for the weak. Distraction is the real high. You don’t need a needle, a powder, or a pill. You just need a screen, a Wi-Fi connection, and a profound fear of facing your own life. We’re all addicted, and no one’s even trying to hide it. We’ve got a phone in one hand, a snack in the other, and our souls spiraling down the drain, all while scrolling through cat videos. God forbid we sit in silence for five minutes, God forbid we ever think about our own existence.
This is the world we live in: a non-stop buffet of bullshit, ready to distract us from the fact that we’re all just waiting to die.
TikTok? Oh yeah, that’s the next level of self-ruin. It’s like a fast-food drive-thru for your brain—just a few seconds of dopamine before you realize you're just a hamster in a wheel, but hey, that wheel's spinning fast, right?
And we're all in denial. We’ve convinced ourselves this is “normal,” that it's totally fine to spend hours on end consuming absolutely nothing of value.
Oh, you’re not distracted? You’re missing out. You must be “weird” if you don’t have a constant stream of nonsense filling the void. Heaven forbid you spend five minutes in your own head. That’s crazy talk.
You'll start asking yourself questions like, “Why am I here?” and “What’s the point of this?” — things that will definitely ruin your buzz. Best to keep the distractions coming, even if it means dumbing yourself down to a level that’ll make you wonder if you left your brain in the last episode of whatever Netflix crap you were watching.
You think you’re killing time? Nah, time’s killing you, and you're too busy laughing at TikToks to even notice. All those distractions won’t give you answers. They won’t fix anything. They’ll just fill up your day with meaningless noise, all while you stare at your phone like it’s a magic mirror that’s going to make your problems go away. Spoiler alert: it won’t. But hey, at least you’ll be entertained while you slowly realize that you’ve been checking your notifications more than you’ve checked your pulse.
If you think all these distractions are helping you, you’re like a kid running away from a tornado, thinking if you just keep spinning in circles, it’ll somehow pass. But nope, it’s still coming, and it’s going to rip you apart.
At least you’ll have some memes to fall back on when it does
