2 posts tagged “23/ go one week without visiting a pop blog”
I've stumbled into 23/ Go one week without visiting a pop blog.
Last Friday, I declared I'd do it: I am simply too persuaded by the lives of others. I see a thin so-and-so and want to be like her. Instead of wanting to be like me. I am perfectly wonderful, so I'm not sure exactly what I'm thinking. Clearly I have a problem.
So there I went and started on No. 23.
What I've found is that I'm not particularly pining for the pop-culture content. Nevertheless, I have to try very hard not to visit my regular sites. My conclusion: There are several times during my day that I am flat-out bored. And what I have done over the past, oh, several years, is visit these sites to fill in the gaps.
These are gaps in my brain! That I'm filling with celebrity trivia!
Now, I truly don't have anything against keeping in touch with pop culture. And when I finish No. 23 (and then No. 24: going a month without the blogs), I'll likely resume visiting them on some kind of regular basis.
The thing is, I need to pay heed to the fact that over and over, I turn my brain to something not very productive at all when I could be using my gaps to do something intellectual/energizing/helpful/enriching. If, at least sometimes, I forgo the blogs for whatever those things end up being, then Nos. 23 and 24 will have served a higher purpose, and my life will be ever so more robust because of it.
Oh, this'll be hard. I'm not sure what my free time was filled with before popsugar and dlisted, but it must have been something. I wasn't unreasonably bored before I discovered those sites. They're just so easy to visit, and to get completely caught up in. And, honestly, I've become a little compulsive with them. If I visit, say, popsugar and start scrolling through it, I can't pull myself away until I get through all the new content. Just can't do it.
So a week away will be better. Even better: a month.
