The Power of Unplugging — How One Hour Without Screens Can Heal the Planet 🌍✨
Do you ever notice how the world seems gentler when you put your phone down? How your thoughts slow, your breathing quiets, and before you know it, you can hear the stillness? I would sit for hours with mindless scrolling on my phone, from homework to Facebook to nonsensical videos — all of which left me in a strange way drained and alone. One evening, the electricity went out. No lights, no internet, no commotion. I sat silently for an hour watching the gentle flicker of a candle move across the walls. It was mundane, peaceful, nearly sacred. That night changed something in me. I began to wonder: What if disconnecting from our screens could help reconnect us — not just to ourselves, but to the planet too? It’s easy to forget that our digital lives have a real, physical footprint. Every photo we upload, every video we stream, every cloud file we save — all of it requires massive data centers that run nonstop. These servers use gigantic levels of electricity, much of which is still gene...