The Inspire blog

I always wonder what you guys (yes you, you reading this… youuuuu) do in your respective homes. Call me nosey lol but I would imagine someone is having a self karaoke party by themselves (guilty as charged), doing homework (boooooring), locking in (as you should), on the phone (cough cough), watching tv, choresssss, ugh.

I’m in my room wondering what you’re doing in yours while scrolling through what everyone else is doing in theirs. It’s a whole thing. Anyway.

My friends and I drove to get ice cream last night. Total whim. No plan. Someone was aux and suddenly we were all screaming (not really) lyrics (car karaoke is a spiritual experience, I will not be taking questions).

We had the whole ice cream shop to ourselves. Tangled was playing in the background. We spent the whole time filming TikToks we’re never gonna post and just being… us. Chaotic. I remember thinking—we need to do this more.”

Not ice cream specifically. Just… this. The impulsive stuff. The ‘it’s late but who cares’ stuff. The being in the same room (or car) without everyone being on their phones the whole time.

Most of my friends are graduating and moving this year. We won’t always be able to do stuff like this. The window is closing and I haven’t been acting like it.

I have been too in my room. Too in my phone. Too Pavlov’d to notification dings. (Seriously, my screen time is criminal. We’re not gonna talk about it.)

I’m not doing a “phones are evil” thing. I love my phone. My phone has all my music and my notes app and the entire internet. But I’m experimenting this year with being a little less… available to it? Like I don’t need to check every notification the second it comes in. The group chat will survive without me for an hour, They’ll miss my funniness, obviously. TikTok will still be there later.

Yesterday nobody had their phones out and it was so normal it was almost weird. We took pictures though. Obviously. I’m anti-phone, not unhinged.

Anyway. I don’t really have a point. I just think we should do stuff like this more. Before we can’t, so go see your friends or something idk.