Last week, from December 23rd to January 1st, I took break from everything. That includes social media, work stuff, learning to code, playing chess and also Hive **. I decided to focus in spending quality time with my family and rewiring my brain, hoping that I could disconnect from everything and begin 2022 with a refreshed mindset and a recharged battery.
I'm satisfied to say I managed to fulfill my goals, sort of.
I have suffered from Hive Withdrawal Syndrome before, but that was when I was heavily involved in community initiatives and a lot depended on me being available on Hive and Discord 18 hours a day, every day.
This withdrawal syndrome was different. I felt the need and the want to be active on Hive as just a normal user: Posting, commenting and consuming content, just like every other person engages in traditional social media, just exactly like the normies consume content on Instagram or Facebook.
I'm pretty sure 99% of you have felt this Facebook or Instagram deprivation anxiety and stress complex at one point of your life, and it sucks. FB and IG are engineered and designed to make us dependent of the constant serotonin influx they provide with their user experience.
But if you told me that Hive could cause addiction or make you feel anxious when you are not posting or commenting, or just consuming content, I wouldn't believe you, at all.
And yet there I was, having a beer by the ocean, and craving my laptop time, wanting to publish a post on Hive, or play a chess match, come up with a little Javascript project, or maybe just aimlessly scroll my Hive feed. But I couldn't get rid of a small piece of anxiety telling me I was missing out on something by just hanging by the pool or playing card games all day.
And that's exactly the feeling I wanted to get rid of when I decided to escape from anything tech related, at least for a week and a half.
I managed to do it, and I'm proud of myself. I'm not sure I rewired my brain, but at least I realised I can still go by for ten days without technology and not go crazy - almost.
I'm thirty-three years old now
Is there a 33 club just like there's a 27 club? If so, I'm still on time, we'll see.
I spent my birthday pretty chilled, doing just whatever I wanted, exactly how I wanted.
Here are some pics about it. I'm not including pics of my beach holiday destination because I plan on doing individual posts about the spots :)
I'm glad I'm back on Hive after this tini tiny Tech hiatus, Happy New year! I wish you all the best 2022 beginning, and let's hope the forces controlling our daily lives don't decide to make 22 be like 20 was.