For Tomorrow

Biologically speaking, we feel good when certain chemicals are released in our body. We typically associate artificially stimulating this release system as “getting high,” through taking drugs or smoking or whatnot. Society has done a good job, at least where I grew up, of emphasizing the stigma around these things. Life revolves around feeling these “highs,” regardless of whether we induce them artificially or they arise naturally. You could argue that our goal in life is purely to feel good, and evolution has used this motivator to get us to do things necessary for survival: eat, sleep, fall in love, be social, etc. But as humans got smarter, everything shattered.  One of the first things to fall was eating habits. Once people realized that sugar is what provides the “high” after eating, it became the center of all food. All these years later, we see the same thing happening with social media. Apps have targeted the exact part of social interactions that make them pleasurable (sp...