notaehw
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I wrote this weird ass ode to social media in my notes b4 I set myself a screen time
am I going crazy
(hopefully this lasts jfl, prolly not going about this the right way at all, and i’m not restricting anything else yet)
Seven hours a day, for years. I now believe I am not going to come across a new revolutionary topic, and the search for that on social media is discontinued.
I am ready to take the worldview that I have built up and only expose it to highly dopaminergic consideration, comparison, and humor for 20 minutes a day.
I very well might be going down a path that I will later think is stupid, and maybe something on social media would make me consider that sooner. But I now believe in my own competence to have the consideration I need wholly by myself. The small chance of the better life path realization through social media, is easily overwhelmed by the great downstream effects of social media on my life experience from here on out.
I still love it, but I feel I will find a much greater love for other things.
I believe my quality of life will improve slightly to start and the long term compounding should take it from there. Six hours of my day will no longer be forgotten, and some unavoidable hard things, should become more bearable.
The return on investment is too great of getting the itch to scroll into the world of infinite ideas and perceptions for hours a day, and choosing to ignore it.
It was part of my life. One that I will majorly forget, yet remember so much.
But in the grand scheme of my life and health, getting lost in that beautiful world away from my ltn life will restrict the beauty yet to be revealed outside of it. And this beauty, I hope, is much greater than anything social media has to offer. This requires the belief that I will reveal such beauty, and many I presume, don’t believe that this is a possibility for them. To succeed greatly you have to be willing to fail greatly. - Mike Tyson I think
There will be pain without the immediate escape route of social media, but I believe the pain will have a much greater net total with unrestricted social media.
I am excited and ready to be absolutely bored with my time outside of social media. This boredom should lead me into an unfamiliar form of self consideration and to paths that are more likely to compound into this life I want.
With 20 minutes a day, it will take a month to reach all the exposure I once have got in one day.
With the exposure all so wonderful to me, the beautiful life I wish for cannot exist with the exposure being unrestricted.
In the vast mystery of what I am missing on social media will be the great revealing of the love for other things.
Wrote this in a trance, questioning my neurotypical status atm
idk y i’m sharing
am I going crazy
(hopefully this lasts jfl, prolly not going about this the right way at all, and i’m not restricting anything else yet)
Seven hours a day, for years. I now believe I am not going to come across a new revolutionary topic, and the search for that on social media is discontinued.
I am ready to take the worldview that I have built up and only expose it to highly dopaminergic consideration, comparison, and humor for 20 minutes a day.
I very well might be going down a path that I will later think is stupid, and maybe something on social media would make me consider that sooner. But I now believe in my own competence to have the consideration I need wholly by myself. The small chance of the better life path realization through social media, is easily overwhelmed by the great downstream effects of social media on my life experience from here on out.
I still love it, but I feel I will find a much greater love for other things.
I believe my quality of life will improve slightly to start and the long term compounding should take it from there. Six hours of my day will no longer be forgotten, and some unavoidable hard things, should become more bearable.
The return on investment is too great of getting the itch to scroll into the world of infinite ideas and perceptions for hours a day, and choosing to ignore it.
It was part of my life. One that I will majorly forget, yet remember so much.
But in the grand scheme of my life and health, getting lost in that beautiful world away from my ltn life will restrict the beauty yet to be revealed outside of it. And this beauty, I hope, is much greater than anything social media has to offer. This requires the belief that I will reveal such beauty, and many I presume, don’t believe that this is a possibility for them. To succeed greatly you have to be willing to fail greatly. - Mike Tyson I think
There will be pain without the immediate escape route of social media, but I believe the pain will have a much greater net total with unrestricted social media.
I am excited and ready to be absolutely bored with my time outside of social media. This boredom should lead me into an unfamiliar form of self consideration and to paths that are more likely to compound into this life I want.
With 20 minutes a day, it will take a month to reach all the exposure I once have got in one day.
With the exposure all so wonderful to me, the beautiful life I wish for cannot exist with the exposure being unrestricted.
In the vast mystery of what I am missing on social media will be the great revealing of the love for other things.
Wrote this in a trance, questioning my neurotypical status atm
idk y i’m sharing
