2 days Later – Media Fast
Posted by awaqas1 on October 25, 2008
After 2 days of no T.V., no Web surfing, no instant messaging the feeling I get is the feeling of relief. I feel free of many false obligations that I had obliged myself to. I feel great sense of clarity in my decisions about my daily actions, with the presence of T.V. and other media there was always the chance. Something goods on I’ll watch or in case of youtube it was always like oh let me just watch this one video while I am working. Now I feel it was nothing but lie to myself because I wanted to get away from the work I was doing. Now I am able to take action without sitting there and thinking about it for an hour procrastinating work while I look for a song or I find a video or read an totally irrelevant article or sign into my messenger just to see who is on.
Instead of reading random stuff on the internet, I read book on actual topic that interest, intrigue, make me think, take action, and cultivate growth at each step. I have done more reading in the past 2 days than ever, one of the reasons is because I am reading really good books but the other is because now I have a lot more time on my hands. I know knowledge isn’t everything but it is a good start it is that seed that the plant sprouts out of which later becomes a strong tree. I am still tempted at times to watch T.V. with my younger sister or play video games with my brother but the feeling of passing on something of greater beneficial compels me to do something better and the temptation of such useless activity perishes instantly.
One of the things that I have notice is that my mind escaping me while I am trying to read sometimes. It slips away ever so quietly into thinking irrelevant thoughts I have started to notice it and the only thing I have to do is gently remind it that there is no place more joyful than the present. If you ever catch your mind drifting away remind yourself that the past is what has left you and the future is only a figment of your imagination but the moment you have now you can change to your liking. If you are doing something you absolutely hate doing you can change that before it becomes your past.
