I remember dial phones! I used to love playing with them XD

And then in what felt like not long even at the time we went to button phones.

Also remember the little brick that my first mobile was XD

In general, we tend to think of people the way we last saw them

And this is why adults exasperate kids with the "my how you've grown!" thing XD

we don't know how to improve our finances when we are struggling, we don't know how to fix our failing relationships, we don't know how to take care of our bodies so we are healthy - or at least, we don't know enough to actually do something to improve our quality of life.

I sometimes (okay often) feel like there's a wilful ignorance going on here. Because if you did know, then you would have to act because you know better, and that's way too hard and requires too much effort, ignorance is bliss XD

And I have also known people who know full well but don't because "too hard" and "better things to do" (and then I tell them in turn to not complain if they're not going to do antyhing).

Writing helps me deal with aspects of my life by breaking my attention away from the current moments that scream for attention and gives me the time and space to become reflective on things that are within my control, I have some influence over or, I can accept as being outside of my control completely.

Nice :)

You know I only "recently" (which has expanded from last few months to last few years, that's a sign of getting old right x_x) realised that this is actually a problem for normal people (despite watching numerous friends struggle with processing the sheer volume of information availablet hese days). One of my brain glitches makes me almost automatically ignore things the more they scream for attention/try to tell me what I should be doing/feeling about something.

there is precious little time left for self-reflection unless we actively make it

Also sounds like a conspiracy theory :D (I did actually read something about keeping people in a permanent state of crisis so they didn't have time to think and reflect but do you think I can find it now)