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Originally Posted by ilikeplanets
Let me know how it goes. I tried to have an entire day without internet use in early October, excluding what I needed for work, and failed about 8 hours in. Pathetic. I was physically uncomfortable without clicking something. That's actually pretty alarming.
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Yeah, we do develop quite a dependence on it. I'm just always thinking of how much of my life is spent on shit I don't really care about. It doesn't even seem like "self-care" or true leisure or whatever to do pointless nonsense (at least to the extent that I do it), because even if it feels comfortable in the moment, it's never followed with a rewarding or fulfilling feeling of "I'm glad I did that and I feel better now," like one gets from engaging in a hobby or reading or taking a stroll through nature. Instead, it's followed by the same kind of feeling one gets when one gorges oneself on Twizzlers and Oreos. "I like shit now; why tf did I let myself do that?"