Let’s be honest for a second: most of us live our lives inside a series of carefully climate-controlled boxes. We wake up in a box, drive to campus or the office in a box, spend hours staring into the glowing rectangular box of our monitors, and then try to sweat out the stress of the day inside the fluorescent-lit box of a gym.
Between late-night study sessions, keeping up with coursework, and the constant, vibrating hum of managing digital spaces, my default state is usually bathed in the blue light of a screen. It is incredibly easy to let the digital grind completely override the physical world. But today is Earth Day, which serves as the perfect annual reminder that we aren’t actually wired to live like this.
We build these rigid, indoor routines to stay productive, but in the process, we often lose the very thing that keeps us grounded. Today, I wanted to talk about stepping away from the screens, taking the routine outside, and why a physical reset is the best thing you can do for your mental health.
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