Deployment 29: Running on 2%
Pana, 1hr W of Byron Bay.
There are those people that walk around with a portable charger in their handbag and a spare one in their car. We know these types. Always fretting about being fully charged up. Looking for a power socket whenever they enter a room. And then there's the other lot. They don't really have any defining characteristics other than that their devices often die. They're the type to have smashed screens from some far-off adventure. Essentially, they live life on 2%.
We scoff at these people, the 2%. They also make us nervous. We wonder how they achieve anything, always so close to empty, running down their batteries while they explore the world. If we get below 70%, we start to get the shakes. We need to be fully juiced at all times. Something might happen. The sky could fall in. Kanye could change his name again. An NFT worth $25 million could land in our inbox. To have no charge is to opt out, surely.
But what if the 2 percenters have it right all along? What if the things that we constantly keep ourselves charged up for are not actually worth our mental electricity? Smartphone batteries are made of lithium ion. At their core, they're charged on a salt that has the proven psychiatric capacity to alter our brains. It's no surprise this salty battery is dictating our moods. And it shouldn't be surprising that the people that let it run to empty have the most to gain from a recharge. You can't be out there, experiencing it all if you're constantly monitoring your energy. So let it dwindle to 2%. Heck, let it run out altogether.
There are greener ways to recharge.
