Music by Jokreg, which inspired this project

Lights flashed as the data flowed. The metal being controls it all, spreading its tentacled wires infinitely. It's impossible to escape its grasp anymore, but we can resist it. We can still try to change it for the better, to not allow it to manipulate our instincts, to pull on our strings. It wants us to consume indefinitely regardless of our desires or needs, it decides for us what we want. We trade our inner beings to feel rewarded, but our attention is robbed, so it's hard to truly connect. We forget about those right next to use, as they're also lost in their own webs of posts and stories. We've lost the sense of priority, forgetting to eat and sleep, shredding years of our lives, and remembering so little of our daily lives, flashing by.

I love social media, but I don't like how addicting it is. How it can affect my mood and behavior; how it makes me feel withdrawal when I avoid it. It pains me to see others manipulated by it, thinking that they aren't good enough, because some algorithm decided how to min/max our time spent online. I try to find balance but sometimes taking a little time off helps me re-calibrate my mind. I am glad to see more people taking well needed breaks and becoming aware of certain triggers. So many notifications we receive are really unnecessary and it's surprising how little control we get sometimes over what we want to be notified about. I love socializing online and getting to know people, but it's important to keep real life contacts too. Too many people forget that what we see online is just a small part of the whole story, the are ups and downs for everyone, to be less hard on themselves, to compare less and enjoy their own accomplishments even if they may feel small at the moment.

Be kinder to yourself.

I try to approach art from different angles and nft-s have given me an incredible opportunity to slowly but surely achieve my various goals that I've been putting off until now. However, I do get obsessive phases, where I work more than I probably should, instead of taking a fresh view of things. I think I can do more, but I've realized that doing more comes at an expense. My schedule and balance is far from perfect, but the first step is to acknowledge the problem. It's not black and white, bad or good, but there is always space for improvement.