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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2017 2:33:17 GMT -5
I'm going to try my best to eliminate certain bad habits I have. For example, smoking, being online too much, eating poorly, etc. You can really find yourself in a rut, physically, mentally and emotionally. My problem is that I usually do a good job initially, but then get comfortable, and regress back. Though I've done a good job at quiting weed. It's been three months, and I feel like I could care less about it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2017 2:47:39 GMT -5
I also think eliminating toxic social circles is another priority. Even when certain people aren't necessarily bad, I think how you feel about them at the end of the day matters. Or rather how they make you feel about yourself. It's kind of tough to explain. Some people really make me resent them for who they are, and how they act. Yet I sort of feel stuck in a loop of socializing with them. Perhaps it's out of habit I think. I just want to flat out disappear from them. Yet some qualities and interests they have are kind of what makes me still want to be around them. Yet, some off color remark seems to sour everything, and I find myself vehemently hating them with a passion. Idk, maybe I'm just a weirdo. I can go from zero to 60 in a second, and it sucks, because I never quite feel happy or at peace, ever.
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Post by 40oz on Dec 14, 2017 13:37:03 GMT -5
My problem is that I usually do a good job initially, but then get comfortable, and regress back. I was having a conversation with someone at work about this. I recently went vegetarian, but I've been wanting to do this for a very long time... I just never did it until about a month ago. I think the reason I took the plunge is that my wife and I talked about it, and she admitted that she's been feeling the same way for some time now, so we decided to do it together. I think there's some extra accountability when you decide to make a change in your life with someone. Like if I wanted to quit eating pizza, for example. If someone at the office brings in a stack of free pizzas and my mind says "I want that, I want that, I want that..." and I fall victim to my own mind's temptations and decide "yeah, my mind is probably right" and have a slice of pizza anyway, it's kinda easy to cope with because no one is around to say "hey don't eat that, you quit pizza, remember??" No one really knows when you lie to yourself, yknow? So I guess what I'm trying to say is that when I first started this, I would occasionally get really hungry just before lunch or dinner time, and get intense cravings for a turkey sandwich, or a cheesesteak, or something like that. But I didn't want to let my wife down and leave her hanging with this difficult transition on her own. So I felt motivated to fight it. Maybe you could find someone who has some of the same bad habits you do, have a heart-to-heart talk about how you feel about it, and hopefully, if they feel the same way you do, you can make a game out of it and try to quit the habit together. I don't smoke, and I'm pretty conscious about my health/nutrition. I have been contemplating about eliminating my dependence on the internet. For some reason I do feel really drawn to it even when I'm not getting anything out of it. I've been having scary concerns about the future of the internet with all this net neutrality business rearing it's ugly ass in here. I've been worried that it might either cut of my access to the Doom community, or worse, cut off the access of the people I care about. I haven't really worked it all out in my head yet, but I feel we're coming to a time where I should start to inch away from this thing because the idea of being addicted to an internet that is being filtered with commerce/advertising and bound by invisible walls that are designed to deceive me into thinking the internet is a free and expansive frontier is pretty disgusting to me. The fall won't hurt so bad if I start to lessen my attraction to it now. |
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