Recently, I have not been as hooked on technology as I used to be. I grew up on the internet, I have thousands of hours spent learning to program, and building random projects. More thousands of hours of my life growing up have been spent playing video games and learning random bits of information from forums.

As I have grown up, I have switched from Windows to Mac, stopped gaming, stopped exploring the depths of the internet, and just stopped tinkering in general. I do still program daily, but that is work, and work is not very fun.

Maybe I am simply being overdramatic, and this is the normal course of things. I am not sure. But, I do still see many people around me who are happy and still tinkering and doing the things that I used to love to do.

Now, these thoughts don’t really correspond to the title of this post, so I will get into that. I have been set free from the technology that I used to be hooked on. The outdoors are my new playground. Where I used to be locked inside and think that the world within this little box on my desk was the entire world, I have realized this is not the case. I have been very fortunate though, that the hours of tinkering and exploring that little box in my room has led me to a place where I am happier than I ever thought possible.

I rejected the real world and the normalcy of a typical social life growing up and as a result, I am freer than most people dream of being.

As I am trying to figure out how to continue with this thought, I have realized that this seems fairly narcissistic. The word “I” is used a LOT in this post, and maybe that’s not how I should write.

I guess the title of this post doesn’t really make any sense, since the summary of this would be to initially embrace technology, then by learning to reject it, and only then can you be set free.

Thanks for reading. Go outside and explore the world.

Gen Z walter mitty reference. I liked it before it was cool.