“Old-fashioned.” If you describe someone with the word, the young feels special and the old might feel offended.

It’s another thing if you discover that you actually ARE old-fashioned. In a time like this, it’s hard to admit that you are still young but you like to adhere to the old way.

You don’t just like to read paper books, write with fountain pens on notebooks with leather covers. You also find social media annoying, news apps too loud, and ad videos make your eyes hurt and over-an-hour-long podcasts make your head hurt… and you prefer not knowing what your acquaintances are up to, searching for things you want to know, and listening to the same piano playlists on Spotify over and over again.

Is it possible to just buy one playlist so that you can cancel the Spotify subscription?

Or just buy a CD player, and listen to instrumental music on CDs. Like when you were little.

Oh, and you also find all hypes pointless but super loud. The vintage hype is the worst.

Well, well, well. You said you are young. You said you are interested in tech and the world that has AI in it. But you get bored from it for some reasons you don’t even understand. You’d rather bury yourself into books printed on paper and hide away all your electronics.

And hide away from the world.

It’s not easy for a young person, like yourself, to admit all of this. Because of, you know, peer pressure and we are supposed to be the product of our time and so on. But you are admitting it, finally. And that’s good. You’ve realised this is who you are and you are admitting it.

The even harder thing is this: can you be ok with it?

Can you be ok with the fact that you ARE old-fashioned?

Can you be ok with not forcing yourself to be active on social media, to post, like, or comment? Can you be ok with not checking news apps because you “have to be informed” but you don’t? Can you be ok with saying to others “I use my phone when I need to but I don’t like to use it too much. Because it makes me bored.” And that’s the truth.

Can you be ok with how you are?

If you can be, good. Then you can make your world ok with how you are, too.