Living on 1 %: Charged with ChaosMeet Ali, 17, champion procrastinator. His life goal? Never be offline for more than eight seconds.
Swipe through. Every morning, Ali’s alarm rings at 6 a.m.; by 6:05 he has already swiped through 47 reels, 3 cat videos, and a conspiracy theory about pigeons.
On Monday, his teacher asks for a digital homework file. Easy, right? Ali opens his laptop—boom, it
glitches out and starts speaking in fan language: *whoooosh*. He taps, he smacks, he prays. Nothing.
So he grabs his phone to tell the teacher. Just then, a friend texts: “Dude, our old TikTok of you dancing like a confused penguin just
went viral!” Ali is famous… for wobbling.
He rushes to reply—but, of course,
battery’s on 1 percent. He sprints to find a charger like it’s the Olympic final, plugs in… wrong cable. Phone dies dramatically.
That night, instead of doing the assignment, Ali decides to “research inspiration.” Translation: three hours of
doom‑scrolling through influencers’ perfect study setups.
Next morning, he finally reopens the glitched laptop. Surprise! It works perfectly now—except the viral penguin dance is set as his desktop background, permanently looping.
Ali sighs, submits homework five minutes before the deadline, and posts a story: “Life hack: panic mode counts as productivity.
#BatteryAnxiety”
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@ieltszonefergana