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“PAY ATTENTION! PAY ATTENTION! PAY ATTENTION!”

Don’t let the internet take away the most precious thing you have

Welf von Hören
2 min readJan 2, 2020

🗣 If the internet was a person, that’s how it would talk to us sometimes…

💡 It tells us about the most amazing ideas.

🐶 It shows us the cutest dogs.

😂 It makes us laugh.

👯‍♀️ It connects us with our friends.

🌎 It gives us more opportunities than anyone had ever before.

It keeps promising us everything the world has to offer.

For free…

There’s only one thing it asks for!

Our attention. 👁

And our attention is really the only thing we have, to craft our lives. 🖌

So what do we pay, when we’re .. paying .. attention? 💸

We pay with everything else we could’ve done, the people we could’ve met, and the meaningful conversations we could’ve had.

We pay with every future us, that we could’ve been.

With the values we didn’t live by, and the goals we didn’t reach.

We pay for this next episode of Netflix with the peaceful sleep, and the refreshed feeling in the morning, that we won’t have.

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