intention
I put da phone inside anodda room
@lanterntide Narrated by Bret Rose 2:04 27 shots
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Da phone stay in one oddah room and I stay hea, inside dis one, fo da first time all evening. I going do dis every night dis week. Da room wen come mo big da moment um wen leave, which stay one strange ting fo report about one room dat nevah change size at all. Notting wen get gained. Someting wen stop getting subtracted.
My hand keep going to my pocket and finding notting dea. Um happening less often den um was one hour ago. Get one conversation going dat nevah wen get interrupted one time, and I wen genuinely forget wat dat shape sound like from da inside. Sentences stay getting all da way to da end of demselves. Nobody in hea stay waiting fo me fo pau looking at someting else befo dey can carry on.
I been inside rooms all week wit no actually being inside dem. Da people inside dose rooms wen notice, even suppose nobody wen say notting about um, cuz dat not da sort of ting people say out loud. I wen tell myself I was being efficient. Wat I was actually doing was taking small withdrawals from every good moment and spending dem on notting in particular. Not one of dose withdrawals wen feel like one decision at da time, and dass precisely wat wen let dem add up to one whole week I no can really account fo.
Distance, dass da only ting dat work. Willpower lose to one device engineered by thousands of extremely capable people specifically fo beat um, and losing dat fight, dat not one character flaw, dass da expected result of one badly matched contest. So I wen stop trying fo win um and wen change da terms instead. Environment beat intention every single time. Da genuinely good news buried inside dat, dass I no gotta come one mo disciplined person. I gotta walk down da hall.
So um going inside one oddah room, and I set um down befo I sit down, cuz aftahwards, dass one decision I awready know I not going make. Da order, dass da whole trick. Once I stay seated and comfortable, da phone stay mo near den da hallway stay, and at dat point da evening awready wen get decided.
Present. Actually present. Da evening wen come mo long.