when people say "practice doing nothing. doing nothing is healthier than doomscrolling" they're lying to you. no one ever does nothing. actually doing nothing is pretty bad. they mean going out for a walk, or knitting, or snacking on something, or chatting to someone, or people watching, or listening to birds sing, or colouring in one of those colouring templates, or watching the sunset and the clouds, or doing grounding exercises in their head. they're low energy activites, but they still require some amount of energy, or require being someplace or having something, or require having an interest in one of those specific activities. when those things aren't accessible to someone then of course scrolling social media is gonna be the easiest thing to do. and I'm not saying social media is better than those things, but for people who do have an unhealthy relationship with social media, they're not gonna fix that relationship by chasing after an idealised activity of "nothing", that's just penance and they're gonna bore themselves back to where they started. they gotta find out what other mindful activities they actually like, and figure out how to make those activities more readily accessible for themselves. which can be much easier said than done
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