2014-01-19 To T.

Hello T.,

I know this is going to look like a draft, I’m sorry. It is what it is.

I’m writing to you in a hurry. It’s the exam period. So forgive me for the stumbling of words, ideas and forms.

I just want to tell you that this is the first letter of many more that will come in the future.

I discovered the puzzle piece that didn’t fit. The computer, the Internet. I was completely trapped by technology. I had to give all my tech gadgets to a roommate so I could study at ease and calmly. I promise you it’s been one of the most liberating experiences of my life.

I am extremely comfortable and very focused, and I notice that I take much more advantage of the time. I’ll explain the more detailed experience in the future.

These days have been very fruitful. I have a lot of projects and ideas that I’m jotting down as they appear in my mind. At the same time, I am moving forward with my studies at an incredible speed and with incredible efficiency.

I read an article about positive emotions that deserves a letter apart (Fredrickson 2001). I’m much better.

Now I have to ask for your help, T..

I want to share this experience with the world and influence them so that people can experience this technological liberation. To be able to produce and create. I know there are a lot of people with the same problem as me, but some of them know it and some don’t. But we’re stuck in this tech network. A lot of untapped potentials.

I write to you with tears of passion, pain, and joy. T., I have a plan, an idea, a project. I can, we can make this change. But I need you to confirm that I can count on your support. I need your enormous knowledge so that the project grows and people can develop and grow on their own.

I have named the project Do you really need it? Plug off. Handwriting.(Later, it came to my mind, “Does it really matter?”) “Do you really need it? Does it really matter? Disconnected. Write by hand.” I don’t know if Plug off is correct or not, I didn’t check it because I was disconnected. I’m not going to do it now, that I have internet access and I could, because I have to study for exams. More than 4 days writing Plug off in numerous sheets and I do not know if it is right or wrong. Best of all, I don’t care. The idea grows and its content and details are a matter of science, which will be solved later.

T., I will work and sort ideas, exposing them with calm, order and coherence. I have some doubts in some respects that I will expose you. But for now, I’d just like to know if I can count on you.

I hope you’re doing all right. I’d like to hear from you. But until the 29th I can’t give you the time you deserve. I am sorry.

From 1 to 10, I will be in Morocco, so the letters and the project will be delayed a few days.

A huge, excited hug,

Carlos

*Brugges (Belgium), December, 2013*: Black Mirror's victim was about getting liberated.

Figure 14: Brugges (Belgium), December, 2013: Black Mirror’s victim was about getting liberated.

References

Fredrickson, Barbara L. 2001. “The Role of Positive Emotions in Positive Psychology: The Broaden-and-Build Theory of Positive Emotions.” American Psychologist 56 (3): 218.