Have you been avoiding me? (as progressive form of avoid)

Keep a book in your bag to avoid the temptation to doomscroll.

As his screen displayed the falling and fragmenting wreckage of two aircraft that had collided at 2,650 ft. three miles northeast of Lindbergh Field, he muttered, Jesus Christ, an aluminum shower.

How does it feel To be on your own With no direction home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone?