The word for 2024? Brain rot. Totally expected. Totally felt. I could sense it happening, slowly but surely—my brain decaying under the weight of (anti)social media. Five years of endless scrolling, fragmented thoughts, and dopamine hits designed to keep me addicted. Before that, I loved the person I was. As a literature student, I devoured books, analyzed them with passion, lived in stories longer than … Continue reading Brain Rot and the Fight to Think Again