I didn’t mean to, but I sort of didn’t look at the news today. I will say “sort of” because I did watch the local morning news to see what the weather would be like for the kid as she got dressed for school, and I did read one op-ed as I was doing laundry…
But outside of that…
And it felt pretty good. It felt good not know what was going on today in the world. I mean, I know the Knicks won yesterday.
I wanted to stay off social media as well, but that is a harder egg to crack. I know I should do a detox, as a couple of friends of mine have done that from time to time. They all say it did them good, but then they all return to social media.
What I will fully admit is that since Pandemic, I have horrible habits when it comes to my phone, and even watching tv. I am ashamed to admit how much YouTube I have started watching at night before bed. It’s not that these habits eat up all of my time; its that these habits have diminished my attention span, and have also become my go to action when I feel bored or if I have time to kill.
You know what this feels like? When I used to smoke. Smoking used to fill up the dead time in my day. If I had an extra ten minutes; why not smoke? If I’m board; smoke. So, IO know I am not being dramatic when I say the social media is an addiction. I have an addiction.
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