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I'm done posting for the day.

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I spend so much time on the Internet already, but this quote always makes me stop and consider how much I should really be spending here.
Getting notes is a small reward for how much effort and time it costs, as minimal as the expenditure is. That energy, assuming that you have it, can be better spent on so many other things.
Of course, I say this as if it's sage wisdom from my own experience, but I haven't put it into practice myself and I'll still be right back online in a few hours, or even sooner. I just like this quote, at the end of the day.
(For people who havenāt seen this episode or this series, the main character Mob has powers. And heās currently in a simulated world. AKA, posting/scrolling is using your abilities in a simulated world, and sometimes we could all do less of it)
I think that āseeking closureā is a portion of why I spend so much time online. I want to end a scroll session on a high note, or I want to chase the feeling of completeness when I read a really-well-summed-up argument or edutainment post. That *this* was what I was waiting for in order to log off for the day.
And then that dovetails with (or is just me misidentifying) the impulse to keep looking for more gold in the river. So even after a really good post, I keep scrolling.
I need to learn to live with the dissatisfaction of logging off after only an hour each day, or less.
Back for today ā results were middling. On one hand, I did actually stay off of Tumblr, of my own volition, for a week! Pretty good! On the other hand, the very first day, I scrolled my old Tumblr screenshots and looked for music on iTunes, and the second day I then found other ways to waste time, all up until today. Lost 5-7 hours those days and only got a few hours of work in, and by Monday, I was wasting the same 10-odd hours a day.
Par for the course.
Anyway, gonna re-up the break tonight, after doing some Poasting and also messaging. This time, Iām gonna give up webnovels and stuff as wellā¦likely will be a one- or two-day dive into work and then five days of Who Knows What but hey, itās better than it was.
My partners in scrolling, scroll well or touch grass/drywall/some physical non-phone. See you for a few hours, and then in a few days. I mean a week.
The last week my non-vice was piano playing, and my vices were fanfiction+Webtoons+music (browsing)+other stuff. This week, hereās hoping my non-vices will include drawing and writing. Time will tellā¦
Anyway itās poasting time
Someone please tell me to log off

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I think I need to run more.
My twin and I have had discussions for years about how running is the great sanity inducer (for us, who ran in middle and high school). Heās completely right.
I spend a loooot of time dosing up on memes to keep the unpleasantness away, and I think I need to run instead.
Getting some friends of my own instead of waiting to be socialized with also helps, but thatās a little harder to make an effort for.
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This post brought on by the slightly increased āclarityā (for lack of a better word) that I felt this week so far, potentially caused by me playing Terraria with acquaintances, online Scrabble (NYT Crossplay) with family, and running 21 miles last week. Will be increasing my dosage of all of these this week.
You are one of my favorite mutuals to see on my dash. What's The Guy up to today (my me impression (#myme))
Me? Iām one of your favorite mutuals to see on the dash? This guy?
I had something self-deprecating to say but then my draft got deleted, so Iāll take the compliment instead. Thank you for the positive ask. Iāll continue to live up to your expectations.
One day, may we both find better things to do with our time than post and scroll.
Really odd to me how the most valuable moral a story could have, for me specifically, is to live in the present. Stay grounded, touch grass, keep your head out of the clouds, etc. To stop relying so heavily on escapism.
And the thing is, a moral like that is antithetical to a web serialās, or other ongoing storyās, survival. It would have to tell me to abandon it entirely. The best story tries to get me to stop consuming it.
So whenever I come across this kind of moral, I act against it ā I want to reward authors for telling me to log off, so I keep reading their works even after Iāve been given a valuable epiphany. (Not that continuing to read a free web serial without monetarily supporting the author, or even commenting, is a ārewardā for the direction the story takes. However, this is the broken logic I use.) I also want to spend my limited time reading/watching something that tells me helpful morals, despite this being vastly inferior to just spending my time well. You know, do what the story is telling me to do.
Anyway, escapism is fine in moderation, but I should really log off and spend fewer than 40 hours a week just scrolling. And if you spend anywhere near or above that amount of time scrolling, and itās not for a job, then you should probably log off too.
Just know that addiction usually is a self-treatment for other issues, so you may not actually get better off. Uh, good luck with your problems after logging off. Maybe log back on, but more carefully. Or donāt. Like, donāt log back on; not donāt be careful.
Anyway. Iāll be back online pretty much immediately anyway, so this is more of a 2 AM musing than anything else.