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💭 Just Being

2024.01.04

I am working on being more mindful and not constantly trying to distract myself from reality. I don't let myself just be, and I'm trying to do that more.

A couple times in the last few days I muted the radio in the car and just listened to the rain fall outside. Just driving and listening and being. It was nice, and I want to keep doing things like that. I've also managed to sit and enjoy tea or sit with one of my kids without allowing myself to pull out my phone. I always feel like I need to be doing something, but I simply don't.

There is just so much information and entertainment out there, and we can never consume it all. I don't want to be on social networks scrolling through things that I don't commit to my memory or provide me anything. I don't want to be constantly listening to podcasts, never being able to catch up on the 1000+ episodes I have across all the podcasts I want to listen to, which just keeps growing.

On the idea of podcast, I'm considering not subscribing to podcasts that post weekly or daily. I notoriously can't keep up with these and then feel I have to when I have a silent moment. I think I will unsubscribe from these:

They are great podcasts, but I'm always behind, the episodes are so long, and I just never take the time to sit down to listen to them.

These I may not give up, but I am considering it. I'm not sure yet:

Bidnote is just a few minutes a day, so I think that may be fine, but I often end up not listening for many days and have a ton to get through.

The SneakyArt podcast is inspiring for making art, so that's a benefit enough to maybe keep it, but I'm choosing to listen to the backlog of episodes, so new ones are always popping up and it will take me a long time to catch up.

Podcasts aside, I just want to take more moments to just be and enjoy existing.

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