Finding Mindfulness Online Requires Practicing Constraint

Social media has become exhausting for me these past few months. When things were slow in my life, it was a nice consistent dose of excitement. But, now, buying a house, moving, and starting my life with someone else, I find it just a spike of stress on top of how I’m already feeling: stressed.

Fortunatly, for the past year-and-a-half I’ve been recording websites and pages that have peaked my interest or that I’ve thought special. I’m particularly interested in personal websites because they really are the full picuture of a stranger I’d love to know, but will never meet.

Being honest, I barely read any of them. That’s a habit I need to break, because often the site’s are goldmines of entertaining or informative content, but I’ve only saved them because something on the site catches my eye, or I think it would be good to get back to later. Later never comes, I’m bad at doing thing for myself, so they sit gathering dust. I treat my RSS reader the same way. It’s often the only way I discover new posts by blogs I love, but I never check it except when I’m bored, with my iPad, and can’t work on projects or load up YouTube. Basically, this whole paragraph was a long winded way of saying I have poor media consumption habits and I’d like to change.