maybe the internet was a mistake

[threeplusfire]

 This nightmare election season, combined with the coronavirus situation, is driving me off a lot of public facing social media. It makes me feel so bad, so grim, so despairing. No amount of cute animal pictures really helps. I worry about it because I'm dealing with this onset of social anxiety in the past year, and the loneliness of having most of my close friends scattered around the world. But I need to stop constantly refreshing that scrolling horror show.

It might not help my feelings of being disconnected, but it will probably help my productivity. I want to try to write more regularly, maybe a couple times a week here. Maybe I'll finish revising this novel. Maybe I'll do a lot of things that don't involve twitter.