Art by J. L. Westover
I was listening to a self help book about bad habits and it keeps going on about video games=time waste, don’t do it. Honestly that’s bullshit and I’m sick of that viewpoint. What if that’s what I like to do in my down time to relax? Why is playing video games a bad habit but watching a movie isn’t?
Balance. It’s perfectly fine to realize when you’re too far in either direction.
For you to not live in a world where you’re being inundated by all of the collective human stressors every day?
My experience with stressors is that they are relative, and they scale to fit the available worry. I’m stressed about work, but from personal experience I have been just as stressed about being unemployed or about school. Therefore the stress is the common thing - if it is common then adjusting to the stress is more productive than avoiding the stresses.
Hence meditation, exercise, meaningful relationships, etc.
It wants to stop staring at a screen all day and go outside.
What hustle culture does to your mind