Oooh I see it now. I think what threw me off was my confusion about putting envelopes in a closet. So when the rest of the paragraph had nothing to do with that my brain just blue screened.
The envelopes in the closet thing is that he could just buy a ton of them at once so he doesn’t need to walk to get them one hundred times. That would be the most efficient option. But it’s also the most boring.
He’s writing about real life, and not everything in real life is neatly ordered.
Yes, he could do a lot of his tasks online, but that would mean giving up the random pleasures he enjoys by going out and interacting with the world.
edit = He could have just said “I would rather do things offline. I still enjoy being outside.”
Instead, he chose to meander.
Oooh I see it now. I think what threw me off was my confusion about putting envelopes in a closet. So when the rest of the paragraph had nothing to do with that my brain just blue screened.
The envelopes in the closet thing is that he could just buy a ton of them at once so he doesn’t need to walk to get them one hundred times. That would be the most efficient option. But it’s also the most boring.
Nobody’s human