Never Truly Awake: The Digital Disappearance of Self

If you find yourself unable to sit with yourself in the quiet, if the silence feels unbearable, if the itch to check gnaws at you like a half-formed thought—then you must face the truth: you are no longer the master of your own attention. The world has already reached into you, has taken root inside your mind, and what you call your "self" is merely a thin layer wrapped around the endless hunger for distraction. Perhaps you never truly wake at all. Maybe you merely rise, check, scroll, perform, and disappear.