We all know that sitting for hours of screen time is bad, but can we fix it?

I think a lot of us don't realize how much pain we live in because of our interactions with computing.

Ultimately, it's a culture change.

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I was in Boulder, Colorado, I was working for veterans green jobs.

I was just struggling.

I didn't know where I was. I didn't have a sense of who I was

or my place in the world. And I felt like I was creating an unnecessary burden on people in the world.

And I was feeling horrifically guilty that I was feeling that way and what am I doing alive when friends of mine who had kids and careers and everything to live for didn't make it home and why am I here?

What would I have done if I was a teenager living in Baghdad? What did I do deserve this life that I had and was I just wasting it away?

So that's where this idea of annihilation or ceasing to exist became so powerful and I kept calling a friend of mine that I'd

deployed to Iraq with talking about wanting to join the military and get out of life and

other people might look at that as you know death suicide, but I thought about it as disappearance.

And he's like, look, you got to do something about it.

And he's like, come rock climbing with me.

And we did.

We didn't go all the way top. We were moving very slow and all of a sudden I couldn't move any further.

I was paralyzed with fear. I started sobbing that I was afraid and I think it was that moment when I realized that without the help of chemicals, alcohol or drugs,

I had realized that for the last several hours I had not been thinking about anything other than the now.

And that's when all the fear and all the guilt and all the failure or feelings of failure, just came rumbling through me.

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