…has become not near impossible, but I am definitely out of the habit of writing on an often enough basis. In my twenties I enjoyed blogging, and used it as a good dumping grounds for thoughts and project ideas. With how prevalent social media had become, I can see when I stopped blogging and just started sharing funny comics and cats to stories. So right now I am attempting to make this a habit. To write often, even if there’s no real “end result.” Don’t necessarily have to make progress, but it’s still potentially better than sharing a Snoopy comic that ran on this particular date some years ago.
And it’s fucking August. The year just started, and with the beginning of the year wanting to write more and compose those pieces that have been stuck in my head for years. It is honestly very difficult to remain creative and positive while there is an active genocide (genocides! plural!) happening, while family and neighbors are being kidnapped by make believe military police, while personal life changes happen, while I remain exhausted from my job.
It’s also would be a very good regular habit to do this instead of scrolling through Instagram and the other socials. This last week Instagram rolled out a new “feature” which allows people to see each other’s location. They rolled it out silently, like many “features” that violate privacy. This is also very problematic for artist or musician accounts as we have a lot of followers, many of which we don’t want appearing on our doorstep.
Items like this really remind me that the companies running these apps aren’t looking for our better interest. Really, they just want us to stay on the apps so they can collect data from us and also turn around ad revenue.
So finding myself on my own blog, which I paid for with my own money, on my own domain, with no ads, no push for content creation or whatever, just able to jot down these thoughts, feels rather freeing. Especially when those companies are actively assisting in a genocide as well.
And lol as I write this, I have checked that app 3 times. I first opened it to make sure I didn’t see the map feature after posting the link to the article above, then I just had it open and saw a few stories from friends of mine.
And as I continue to write this, I keep checking other tabs and my phone for other things. I think the big takeaway is that there’s so much more on the internet in current day in comparison to 20 years ago during those blog days. Also, having much more things be converted online is a big factor. Post “pandemic year” pretty much everything I do is online and 90% of my time is spent in this office.
Next few goals will be to cancel subscriptions to some of the streaming services I don’t particularly use any more, limiting my channels of entertainment to a select few sources; then doing little blogs like this more often to get in the right mindsets for personal creative projects.
And while writing this, the internet went out, so I had to switch to a hot spot.
Okay, back to work. Ta!