“It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself—anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called.”

You can be safe and online, but never both.

نمیدونم چرا بدنم درد میکنه

❗THIS IS A GENTLE REMINDER

Make a habit of reaching out to people just because they crossed your mind.

People don't abandon people they care about.
They abandon people they were using.