This month has been really interesting, because of how much I have stopped a range of things. Last month I stopped drinking, and until now, the 3rd of March, I haven’t had a drink of alcohol! In mid February, I placed a time limit on Social Media. In the past week, I’ve deleted Shopee, AliExpress, and Amazon from my phone.
All this because I really wanted to claim back my time and brainspace somehow. It takes a bit of effort to just cut clean. There are many “but what if’s”, and honestly, so what. It’s annoying, but I could always use the desktop app. The question really is “Do I need to buy things now?” Answer is actually no, I don’t. More than that, I shouldn’t be buying things all the time whenever I want to. It’s not right and I end up spending way too much.
It’s also given me a lot of clarity on how and what I spend my time on. I would spend so much time on the shopping apps. There was always this pressure of “what if I could have gotten a better deal for this other thing I might need one day in my life?” The truth is that I already have too much. Having one more won’t change anything, and instead, I should work towards just making full use of what I already have. And I started to do just that.
Even with my goals of reading, I’ve got books, so many books bought and unread. I could really do with just sitting there and reading some of them, instead of buying more and more. I do like to collect for sure, but perhaps my collecting could be at more appropriate times. Specific boxsets or special editions are great and ideal.
In any case, I’m glad my life has been re-adjusted somewhat. Now I just have to maintain this for the coming time ahead. It’s been exciting to cut a lot of these things from my life. I really do feel quite refreshed.
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