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.
You__e lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you__e locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at you sleeping. I wake up and look at you and I feel closer to you when you__e like that, unguarded, than when you__e awake. When you__e awake you__e like someone with her eyes closed, watching a movie on the inside of your eyelids. I can__ reach you anymore. Once upon a time I could, but not now, and not for a long time.
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You__e lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you__e locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at you sleeping. I wake up and look at you and I feel closer to you when you__e like that, unguarded, than when you__e awake. When you__e awake you__e like someone with her eyes closed, watching a movie on the inside of your eyelids. I can__ reach you anymore. Once upon a time I could, but not now, and not for a long time.
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