For the past four years, I’ve been making blog posts. Over that time, I’ve managed to tally up only 75 actual posts to this page. More than 1000 days, and I’ve made 75 posts. I’m not off to a great start, am I?
I’ve never been particularly consistent. It seems in life if there’s one thing to rely on about me, it’s that I cannot be relied on. But, I am getting better, slowly and surely. It’s not fast, mind you. But it is there. I am still trying.
I largely credit this improvement to slowly eliminating my addictions to the digital world (such as deleting my social media accounts). I know what you’re thinking, I’m on the internet right now. But it’s not quite the same thing. I was addicted to the short form. To social media, to YouTube, to all the flashy, short term hits of dopamine. As I detach from that, I find myself drifting into a lifestyle of more focus.
It’s slow. That lifestyle is not an easy thing to simply cut out, as the world we live in continues to imbed itself further and further into our home and work lives. Detaching ourselves from it will only become more and more difficult as time stretches on.
But I feel better. Better than I have in a long time. Things are not being so ignored as they once were. I am achieving small victories, and taking back some small semblance of the joy I had when I was young and unburdened by the dopamine dysregulation. I am becoming what I am supposed to.
Hopefully what that means for you, dear reader, is that I will be back to posting more preparedness minded things. There is always much to talk about.
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