Micro Dispatch 📡

During today's lunch, I challenged myself to not use my phone until I was done eating. This used to be easy for me, but I've since let old habits creep in. I counted at least 6 times, that my hand unconsciously drifted to my jeans pocket trying to take my phone out. I was successful though at stopping myself every time. I was able to finish lunch without needing to use my phone to distract or entertain myself.

What's the point of this exercise? For me, the point is I got to rest my eyes. I work on computers all day. Spending lunch time looking at my phone will not rest my eyes. Looking at something far away in the distance does.

A bonus I got from doing this, is that I had time to think. Without my phone in front of me while eating, I thought about starting an online journal once again.

Why?

I dunno. It's something that's been nagging at me for awhile now. Every once in awhile, I get this itch to journal online.

Another thing nagging at me is this fear of losing the ability to creatively write entirely on my own, without the use of AI. I want to be able to write something at a moment's notice. I want to be able to write down something that I just thought about mere seconds ago — and explain it in my own words, in my own sentences, whether they are grammatically correct or not. I want to be able to do all that and not use AI in the process.

With the advent of AI tools, I feel that this is a skill that I will soon lose if I don't practice. And one way to practice is to blog or write journals online.

And so that's how this post ended up here.

#Journal #DigitalMinimalism #Writing