Doomscrolling

I really don’t like the way I feel after doomscrolling my day or night away. It gets me extremely agitated because I feel like I’ve spent my time so irresponsibly, and if only I had read a book, or even watched a TV show, I would have felt my time was better spent.

Last night I slept so late, laughing away at the little jokes done by creators and their hopes to get viral. Is it worth it? It’s disruptive but what’s the point thereafter?

I have been continually planning some of these thoughts in my head, about the failure of modern education, or the post industrial post capitalist world, and what these things mean for the young people growing up today. I have these mini manifestos running in my mind, and the philosophical theory is growing and developing.

But then I get stuck into the Instagram loop, or the TikTok black hole, or the YouTube Autoplay, and then I find myself crawling out of it two hours later with my mind drained.

I hate how it feels. I started my writing challenge here to combat against it myself, giving myself something to do.

But at the end of the day, it’s just something I slip so easily back into.

There are probably other things to worry about, but this is really high up there in my list of daily frustrations.