I need a break
Last month I did a 'No Reddit Scrolling' September where I didn't browse reddit's homepage, I only enter to see answers to my searches directly from duckduckgo. It was worth it. But I'm now back to it, though only through the laptop. Still, its hard to not think about it. US news are always a bubble waiting to explode, yet nobody seems to be able to do something about it. At this point, I feel like I shouldn't care, but this is all I read on Reddit.
Last Saturday I had to buy a new car and let go of my 2011 Mitsubishi Outlander I loved. And not loved in the sense of a person or a pet, I just liked that car, lived so many moments on it, and it carried me everywhere, even offroad with my tools only being a FWD. The transmission was failing, and it was moment to say goodbye. However, I decided to get a 2021 Mazda CX5 Turbo this time, and though I'm liking it so far and its relatively a new car, I've been obsessed with maintenance, maybe due to trauma with my old cars. (To my non-US readers, I live in Puerto Rico in the mountains. There are no bike lanes, no public transit, and useless or no sidewalks, so my life happens in a car).
So these past days I've been reading how to take care of it, I've been buying stuff to do maintenance myself etc. But IM SO TIREEEED. I need a break. I also need a break of having to go out everyday for work. I need days at my house, gardening etc. I'm just spending hours at my phone looking for stuff for my car and this has lead me to go into many websites and get distracted on my search.
The Reddit break was nice, and I'm planning of going a full year, but maybe what I need is a full month with no internet. I wish we didn't need it for everything...
P.D. This month I'll be doing the no sweets and only 1 coffee October.