Find Me… Elsewhere
searching for magic and faeries
I’m aware of the irony of writing this online. Don’t come at me.
2026 is the year I’m choosing analog. I’m intentionally reclaiming my attention. I’m choosing here and now. I’m seeking and remembering the magic hidden in the physical world. I’m refusing to give my time to something designed to lure me in and rewire my brain chemistry.
Let’s bring back the art of sitting in silence, alone, and doing nothing but daydreaming. That’s where creativity is sourced.
Let’s seek enjoyment that has no measurable outcome.
Let’s do things simply because we CAN, for no purpose other than joy.
I want 2026 to feel tangible. I want to remember where my time went.
I want to be a beginner at something. I want to feel the insecurity of not knowing. That makes even the smallest moment of success so gratifying.
I want to stare at trees, or the mountains, or the clouds without feeling my mind drift back to tasks and obligations.
I want to close my eyes and feel the sun on my skin.
I want to taste delicious wine in Europe and be fully immersed in the moment.
I want to cry because I experience everything so deeply.
I want to walk in the moonlight and search for faeries.
I want to dive back into the waters of curiosity, passion, magic, and that flow state that become reachable only when we’re fully present.
Find me… elsewhere.
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Yup. A bit ironic putting this online lol. But couldn't disagree with a word on it.
I feel as though the yearning in this post isn't a simple unplugging or nostalgia but the sense of presence you mentioned that can only truly be experienced in the quiet we have forgotten in the digital age.
The noise of technology that too often steals our focus.
Being 'elsewhere' is hard, when your so connected, everyone knows what your doing and where, how are you supposed to be alone.
The idea of wanting to ground yourselve in the physical sensations of analog offer a time and place to exist in outside of the technological void.
The post felt like a yearning to be an individual.
You’re speaking my language. I love the tactile feel of pencil on paper and being able to write and draw in silence or in nature.
I love the Brian Froud Fairies book. I would often walk in the woods and I’m not ashamed to admit I half expected to see fairies in the foliage as I slowly ambled along.