The Lost Art of Spacing Out

Melanie Robson
3 min readMay 8, 2021

I blame mobile phones and the Internet

Photo by Joshua Rawson-Harris on Unsplash

Waiting at a cafe the other morning for takeaway coffees I did something I rarely see or rarely do: I stood there without my mobile phone and just waited.

I used the waiting time to drool over the cake display, look at the cafe decor, people watch and space out.

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Melanie Robson

I write about sex and pleasure, and a few other bits and bobs.