Hi loves 💭 I don’t even know how to start this post tbh 😅… it’s just one of those random realizations that hit you out of nowhere.
Wait… a lot of us actually love cute things 💕, aesthetic things 🌸, cozy things ✨…
Do you remember when phones used to look like this? 📞
And then it hit me again: these new phones… they are literally designed to be cute. To feel aesthetic. To keep us staring at the screen longer ✨📱. When your phone looks cozy, aesthetic, customized, you just want to use it more. If it looked boring, plain, grey… would we really spend so many hours scrolling? 🤔
I remember years ago, when I had my last Samsung Note 📱💭… I spent DAYS personalizing it. Widgets, backgrounds, launchers, icons… everything. When I finished, it was sooo perfect ✨🌸. And for like one month, I couldn’t put the phone down 🫠. But after I got bored of the design, guess what? I stopped using my phone so much. I literally forgot about it, got back into chores, anime, movies 🎬, life.
And now I wonder: we, as consumers, asked for customization 🎨. The companies gave us what we wanted. And with every update (like iOS 26), customization goes even further. But… is it healthy? 🥹 Is it healthy for our phones to be this ✨beautiful✨ that we get lost inside screens instead of life?
And it’s not just phones. It’s everywhere: Nintendo Switch 🎮, journals 📔, planners 🖋️, calendars 🗓️… everything becomes cuter, prettier, more aesthetic.
Recently I started playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons 🐹🌿. At first, I thought it looked like a kids’ game 🤷🏼♀️. But I gave it a try… and fell in love instantly 💕. So cute, so cozy, so peaceful 🍃🎀. Catching butterflies 🦋, fishing 🎣, building an island exactly how you want it 🌸🏝️… it feels limitless. Creativity without end.
And then I told my husband jokingly: “Can I play Animal Crossing in real life?” 😂 (we have a countryside house with land that feels… totally abandoned, like starting a new island from scratch). He said: “Do whatever you want.” 🌱✨
But that sparked another thought: in games, we spend thousands of hours planting, fishing, crafting 🌾. But if someone gave us an actual island in real life and told us to do the same thing… we would last 3 days max 😅. Chop one tree 🌳 = 3 days in bed. Water 1000 flowers 🌸 = collapse. Chase bugs 🪲 = panic attack (especially me lol).
Same thing with Sims 🏡. I used to create perfect lives there… careers, families, pets 🐶. Meanwhile, in real life I was stuck. My sims were thriving, but I wasn’t. That realization hurt.
We stare at pink screens 🎀, play endless cute games 🐹, create lives inside simulations where we feel strong, powerful, loved 💕… but when the screen turns off, reality hits. And suddenly life feels empty, messy, “not enough.”
But life itself is a game 🌙✨. If you just stay at “level 1,” stuck on a pink cute screen, you’ll never progress. Imagine: starting a game, sitting at a PC inside that game, and playing another game inside it instead of leveling up. You’d never grow. And one day, you’d look around and realize everyone else is a higher level than you.
So maybe… life is the same. You either play it, or you don’t. Your choice. 🌸
Yes, games feel easier, because you don’t need physical effort. But what do you lose? Time. Money. Your real life. 🕰️💔
✨💭 That’s the realization.
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