As the New Year rolls around local man Ben Phillips vowed to make one of his resolutions for 2022 “being more present”. However, it is alleged that it only took 3 days for him to find himself in a 4 hour TikTok hole, after a routine doom scroll through Instagram and Twitter somehow lead him to redownloading the app.
“At first I felt bad. I couldn’t believe that I’d wasted so much time just mindlessly scrolling some app, not really learning or retaining anything! I even ignored the time limit notification I’d set up with my iPhone – which begs the question – why can you even do that? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose?” he pondered.
“Anyways, I went back to the News app where I first started and then I remembered how I ended up back on TikTok in the first place. As much as I’m trying to be more present, the present’s not that great!” Ben stressed, gesturing wildly at both everything and nothing at once.
When asked if he will try and continue to work on being more present, and what that would look like, he said “Look, I’m not sure. I think I might move? Somewhere like Norway or Japan, they look like they have it together, right? I’m going to look at flights after I watch a few more of this woman’s TikTok’s who crotchets moon cup holders. I don’t even get a period but something about her videos are so soothing”.