addiction
one thing i recognize i'm addicted to is video games. There's probably other things as well. Tech has been made to be so addicting and to suck up all of our free time it's quite scary to realize.
sometimes you just click one more game, swipe for one more post, one more video, one more whatever it is. and just guzzle down the addiction.
and part of that is on me. for i don't tend to address the issue. i just let it keep going.
but i think a larger part is on the companies that make the games like this. and our society for allowing these things to happen as they have.
but that's entirely my way of thinking. i tend to think of things in a societal "out of our control way" rather than taking individual responsibilitiy and addressing it myself.
oh it's to bad i can't stop playing, oh it's to bad i'm addicted to x substence. oh it's to bad i don't know how to do such a thing.
it must be other peoples faults, it can't be mine. i couldn't have done anything differently, someone else...some other construct, is what i should be blaming instead!
there's some truth to both of those things. there is blame on me, i can just delete the game. I can just delete the app. block the site. stop drinking liquor, stop gambling, stop doing the drugs. or whatever it is. but i think there's also a blame on the society that encourages these behaviors. they are made and engineered to have us be addicted. sadly a lot of what we interact with is this way currently.
eating chips? other snack foods? scrolling on insta, shorts, tik tok, reddit, facebook, youtube, discord. hitting that "play again" button for a better hit this time. etc etc.
having us need to put these things above ourselves, and above what it is that we are doing. spending our time entirely on these things.
so you gotta do waht you need to do in order to get things done. society isn't gonna change today. but you can work on changes, and eventually they will stick. or so that's the goal anyway. we'll continue to see.