Hi loves ๐ญ I don’t even know how to start this post tbh ๐ … it’s just one of those random realizations that hit you out of nowhere.
Wait… a lot of us actually love cute things ๐, aesthetic things ๐ธ, cozy things ✨…
Do you remember when phones used to look like this? ๐
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 ✨๐ฑ. 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? ๐ค
I remember years ago, when I had my last Samsung Note ๐ฑ๐ญ… I spent DAYS personalizing it. Widgets, backgrounds, launchers, icons… everything. When I finished, it was sooo perfect ✨๐ธ. And for like one month, I couldn’t put the phone down ๐ซ . 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 ๐ฌ, life.
And now I wonder: we, as consumers, asked for customization ๐จ. The companies gave us what we wanted. And with every update (like iOS 26), customization goes even further. But… is it healthy? ๐ฅน 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 ๐ฎ, journals ๐, planners ๐️, calendars ๐️… everything becomes cuter, prettier, more aesthetic.
Recently I started playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons ๐น๐ฟ. At first, I thought it looked like a kids’ game ๐คท๐ผ♀️. But I gave it a try… and fell in love instantly ๐. So cute, so cozy, so peaceful ๐๐. Catching butterflies ๐ฆ, fishing ๐ฃ, building an island exactly how you want it ๐ธ๐️… it feels limitless. Creativity without end.
And then I told my husband jokingly: “Can I play Animal Crossing in real life?” ๐ (we have a countryside house with land that feels… totally abandoned, like starting a new island from scratch). He said: “Do whatever you want.” ๐ฑ✨
But that sparked another thought: in games, we spend thousands of hours planting, fishing, crafting ๐พ. 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 ๐ . Chop one tree ๐ณ = 3 days in bed. Water 1000 flowers ๐ธ = collapse. Chase bugs ๐ชฒ = panic attack (especially me lol).
Same thing with Sims ๐ก. I used to create perfect lives there… careers, families, pets ๐ถ. Meanwhile, in real life I was stuck. My sims were thriving, but I wasn’t. That realization hurt.
We stare at pink screens ๐, play endless cute games ๐น, create lives inside simulations where we feel strong, powerful, loved ๐… but when the screen turns off, reality hits. And suddenly life feels empty, messy, “not enough.”
But life itself is a game ๐✨. 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. ๐ธ
Yes, games feel easier, because you don’t need physical effort. But what do you lose? Time. Money. Your real life. ๐ฐ️๐
✨๐ญ That’s the realization.
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