As I get older and the world seems to spin faster and faster with more and more information spinning around with it, I am feeling a great need for less. Less, and better quality. I am looking at any voracious appetite I may have as a possible addiction and am seeking to study if it really serves me.
This has gone past the usual suspects when people talk of addiction—alcohol, nicotine, other drugs,excessive food. This is more about an appetite for numbing my intelligence with asinine blog posts, YouTube blah and forgettable television. Surely my time is worth more than that? My life time. Time that, once used, is gone forever.
Any kind of addiction takes away from my life quality. Why work hard on the alcohol and food segments but let digital consumption run rampant? Part of it is laziness because it’s easier to be entertained, however badly, than to get up and do something. Part of it is a desire to simply sit, but there are other and better ways to do that. In the end, it’s a choice. A thinking person chooses a better option.