nathanielbuildsatesseract | Social Media (Reply)

I'm taking a few days off social media (DreamWidth excepted, of course) because I could feel it affecting my mental health, and I'm struck by how different my Internet experience is. My overall experience, frankly, because right now I don't have a whole lot specifically going on.

It's a bit like the summers during my first couple years of high school. I don't have anywhere to be, I don't have anywhere to go, and I don't have anything in particular to do. Normally—as in, as recently as yesterday morning—I would spend much this time on Tumblr or Twitter. Without that, I'm sort of at loose ends. Back in high school, I spent a lot of time online, reading assorted websites and debating in comments sections. I have no desire to do that anymore, so I'm left wondering what to do.

In practice, the answer is spending more time reading physical books in the last 24 hours than the previous week. I can't complain about this change that much. I'm also toying around with how to approach Summer NaNoWriMo (more on that later) and pondering what I should do for my thesis. But I was doing those last two already.

All told, it's a kind of strange experience. I see why I was much more open to watching TV and rereading the same books ad nauseam, to say nothing of my endless Word documents and packs of notebook paper with abandoned story ideas.