For the last five years, I’ve been working as a social media editor. This means that I have, more or less, not come off my phone in all this time. Because in order to do my job well, I need to be up-to-date with the latest social trends, conversations, memes and viral moments.
This is by no means a complaint – I love my job. But when it was time for my long-overdue holiday, I felt like these five years spent mostly online had caught up with me. I needed to switch off. No phone, no laptop, no notifications, no scrolling through cooking reels, no cat videos and no memes.
