As we all probably do, I closed the laptop lid with a quiet snap when a break from screen time is a must. Darkness swallowed the room whole. Nothing moved, no light, no sound but the soft settling of the house itself. Minutes passed, each weighty and slow. Then a faint murmur slipped through the void—a distant echo of voices from that meeting, warped and half-remembered, mingling like a broken record stuck in time.

As we all probably do, I closed the laptop lid with a quiet snap when a break from screen time is a must. Darkness swallowed the room whole. Nothing moved, no light, no sound but the soft settling of the house itself. Minutes passed, each weighty and slow. Then a faint murmur slipped through the void—a distant echo of voices from that meeting, warped and half-remembered, mingling like a broken record stuck in time.