During the week of my birthday, I had two distinct thoughts:
One: man, life is passing by way too quickly.
And Two: You know, when I was a teenager I never saw life past the age of twenty-five. Like I had no vision of what I’d either be or look like in my forties.
Regarding the first thought, I think I narrowed down the problem: social media via my cell phone.
You see, because I remember telling several people last week, it feels like I only have eighteen hours in a day. Most people have twenty-four, not me, I’ve only got eighteen.
That was when my friend, Jake said, “man, it’s the cellphone. Check your screen time.”
So I did.
Sure enough I was spending on average five hours a day on my cellphone. Yikes.
So today, I got rid of a couple of apps and closed a couple of social media accounts. I gotta fill the void somehow and since I see blogging and vlogging as more *creating* content (I hate that word) than consuming content, I decided to kickstart the vlog again.
The short term goal is to post something everyday for the next thirty days. (This post counts.)
I’m also gonna slow down a bit and try to stay off my phone. Be more in the moment.
Re: Two.
It’s weird looking at this greying guy in the mirror with a double chin. He’s a stranger that I don’t know that kinda of showed up one day.
He’s got a lot of crazy ideas (like starting a blog in his late forties), even after the whole blogging craze came and went.
So maybe I need a vision of what I’m looking like and doing at sixty (if the world doesn’t blow itself up or a virus zombies us out.) It would be nice to at least have some sort of vision, no?
Either way, this is the ride.