Surf, Stars, and Silence: Trading 2025’s Screens for Simple Skies

Introduction to the Overload of the Digital World

Notification after notification after notification.

Our attention: constantly being demanded by screens, devices, and social media.

Technology’s exponential growth and development over the last 30 years has resulted in one of history’s most ironic juxtapositions. What has the ability to connect the farthest of people — over the deepest seas and highest mountains, has undoubtedly conditioned them to forget about this wonderful nature in between.

As a result, digitization with a purpose to connect has actually disconnected us from one another, and our natural surroundings.

So what happens when we step away from it all?

Silence and nature have now become antidotes to counterbalance this digital overwhelm.

Why is that so?

The Simple Luxury of Disconnecting

Paddling out to the surf as the sun rises, feeling the grains of sand in between your toes on an empty beach, and gazing at a star-filled night sky whilst telling stories by the flickering light of a bonfire.

How did that make you feel?

I could make a guess and say there was maybe a feeling of longing, a spark of excitement, and a touch of melancholy.