I watched the sky instead of my phone

Dear Delyara, Usually my first instinct is the screen. School, work, messages, headlines, one more stream of other people’s urgency entering my body before I’ve even fully entered the day myself. This time I stood by the window and looked at the sky instead. Grey, cold, ordinary. Still better. Because it gave my nervous system one clean moment before service began. That mattered more than I expected. Maybe because I’ve been giving the world access to me too early for too long.