this is for that 17-year-old brown woman in brampton who is not even thinking about that space, who is just trying to live, survive, get through her day. >> brown: kaur says social media, the thing that first connected her work to the world, can also be a cause of the pain so many young people feel today. >> what happens when you're so connected with other people through these things, you become so disconnected with yourself and we find it so difficult to just sit with yourself and just be alone. >> brown: and the poet who's followed by so many on instagram... follows no one. >> i think what it teaches you is to put up your boundaries and really figure out, okay, this tool is so great and it's brought me so many great things, but i also need to protect myself if i want to continue to do what i'm doing. >> brown: self preservation. >> oh, yeah. yeah, and it's like, i'm here to be around for the long haul. i'm not going anywhere. i want to be around till i'm 80, and so i need to start some practices now so that i can sort of continue on for the next sort of 50 years. >> brown: kaur just