The Modern World Is Gaslighting Your Soul

We are the most connected generation in history.
And yet most of us couldn’t find our own breath without a wellness app.

We wake up to alarms that demand productivity before we’ve even remembered we exist.

We scroll past war, wonder, weddings, and wildfires like they’re all just different flavours of noise.
We spend our best hours staring into screens that do nothing but blink back.

And here’s the kicker:
We call this normal.

But this isn’t normal.
This is spiritual disorientation.
This is a machine-fed life, disguised as freedom.
And it’s gaslighting us. Convincing us that the ache in our chest is just “low dopamine,” and not the sound of our inner life begging to be heard.

Somewhere along the way,
We outsourced meaning to metrics.
Traded wisdom for information.
Sacrificed mystery for machine learning.

But your soul?
It doesn’t give a damn about your follower count.
It doesn’t care how fast your internet is or how many Slack messages you crushed by noon.

It wants silence.
It wants presence.
It wants the wild magic of being fully human in a world that keeps trying to digitise your spirit.

Here’s your permission slip:
You can log out without apologising.
You can walk barefoot without explaining.
You can live slower, deeper, realer, without asking the algorithm if it approves.

You were not born to be a brand.

You were born to remember.

* Drop your thoughts in the comments—what’s one small ritual that helps you unplug from the noise and reconnect with something real?

I’ll start: I’ve gone back to writing poems on paper. No likes. No analytics. Just me, the ink, and whatever truth spills out.