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Choosing the most interesting from the interesting is work!
How do you rest? Read forums and LiveJournal? Oops, big mistake! I am sure that this is not a vacation, but work, and it is very energy-intensive.
I am over 55, I read a lot! Five books a week was my norm. But I, too, feel the hustle and bustle of the Internet, like walking into a huge bookstore five minutes before closing. What to say about young people, how difficult it is for them to cope with new information, not limited in quantities!
Choosing the most interesting from the interesting is already a load!
And if you write on a forum, in a public diary, respond to comments — this is a load comparable to filming live on television, radio, public speaking from the podium, from the stage (of course, this is just my opinion).
And it turns out: instead of rest, you are doing one more job, no less energy-intensive than the main one.
And what to do? And how to be saved?
Head gastritis
I’ll draw an analogy. The stomach needs food, the head too. The head needs impressions, fresh and tasty.
And, if the stomach can be satiated and satisfied for at least two hours, then the head is ready to receive new impressions literally every minute. Did you notice, perhaps? As soon as you receive a joyful letter by e-mail, you immediately press the button to see if another letter has arrived?
Both the Internet and food give great emotional pleasure; don’t tell me you’re eating a health sandwich; for health, you would chew raw buckwheat and caraway seeds, drinking wheatgrass juice.
Yes, the Internet is the sweetest of buns! Online buns are the freshest, just out of the oven! And, besides, cheap! Having got used to them, you will no longer agree for any gingerbread or for any yesterday’s gingerbread!
The freshest buns are known to spoil the stomach faster than any other food. Very bad food! Many of my son’s friends have gastritis from baking. My husband and I have not eaten any yeast products for over ten years.
Internet buns are also harmful, sometimes fatal. Humanity has never had such an overabundance of interesting things! Obviously an abnormal situation for which people are not mentally prepared.
All of us, if we are reasonable, have to limit ourselves in food, put on a diet.
So with impressions, especially with Internet buns, you need to do this, keep yourself on a diet. No other way.
How I Became an Internet Alcoholic
Not for long, of course. This happened to me for the first time, but I already knew the signs of any drug addiction, any alcoholism; the main one is this: everything becomes uninteresting to you, except …
When people ask me “where do you work?”, I answer “on the bed”. And it is true.
I work from home, I sell my articles and books. I send texts and receive money via the Internet.
And then one day, after a couple of months of active LiveJournal (answered all questions, helped with advice, made public friendships with LJ celebrities), I looked around me and discovered that I had become an alcoholic.
And how else to call a woman whose corners are webbed, the windows are fogged, her appearance and weight are on the verge of decent, guests are annoying, there is no strength for any feats?
My regimen
When it came down to it, I worked out a routine for myself and I stick to it.
I turn on the computer for half an hour: I read for twenty minutes, I write for ten. Then a break for an hour and a half. And again: I read for twenty minutes, I write for ten. In the evening, after ten in the evening, it is permissible to read something calm, for example, someone’s magazine, for an hour or two.
And it turns out: every day, without any effort, I write for an hour and a little. Two pages of text is definitely obtained, and this is a very good load for any writer — to write 700 pages a year!
The scripture includes both letters, and comments in LiveJournal, and articles. Writing is a special burden, a great concentration of attention, and it is not for nothing that the so-called “ordinary people” avoid the process of writing in every possible way.
So I live, quite alive and ever more alive. Of course, sometimes you want to poke another button on the keyboard, then another one — it’s a matter of seconds! But I say to myself: poison! poison! you will become, Svetik, an alcoholic!
Perhaps someone will find another phrase for beating on their hands, but the meaning will be the same.
OFF.
Important! During the break, the computer must be turned off. That’s the only way I can relax.
I’ll explain with an example. As I lie down, even during the day, next to my husband, I immediately start to yawn. Always! At first, my husband laughed, saying that he bored me. But then I explained: lying next to a man, I immediately relax, fall asleep. He is a protector, you can close your eyes with him …
It’s about how important the little things are for relaxation.
Now I turn on the computer for about five hours a day, because I read books from the screen. I have a LCD computer, large, it stands near the bed on the table, and you can read lying down. Alternately with one eye, then the other, to protect the eyes.
Othrava, Saint!
There is also such subtlety, or rather, thickness: the reflex is fixed very quickly: I turned on the computer, put a plate of yummy in front of the keyboard. As a result, the ass is softer …
So I follow two diets: for the head and for the so-called soft spot.
For a soft spot, the diet is effective and simple: after 20 pm — only water, hot or cold. The stomach humbles itself after a few days and does not protest, does not ask for “at least an apple” in the evening.
Of course, there are also breakdowns. Here, for example, now — I have been writing for half an hour. Poison, Svetik! ..
Thought in pursuit
Yes, I always want good news about myself (other people’s news is also about me, but I compare my life with others).
Internet addiction in most cases is the same addiction that was once on the mailbox. Just before the mail was brought once a day, and now once a minute.
They write to me
They write to me: “Dependencies don’t go anywhere — they just go into other forms. From alcohol to Internet or gambling addiction, from Internet to vegetarianism, from carbohydrate addiction to medical examinations for all reasons.
I answer. I think there is only one addiction — from emotions. It is impossible without them.
And the method of obtaining — there is useful, there is harmful. But even useful must be dosed.
For example, I am a bookaholic, without reading, breaking begins. If there are three interesting books, I will not tear myself away until I read it. But there are not so many books, but the Internet is bottomless, which is why it is dangerous.