... Music?

Alright this is an early one. I'm walking to work now so I thought I'd try and be efficient. What's probably going to happen is I'm going to end up going really slow or walking into a tree or something but I've decided that's ok.

So straight away I plugged my earphones in; I frigging love music but I listen to it near constantly. The one day I went on a walk without music I ended up meeting a pretty cool dude. Maybe by distracting me from the world I want it to, it's also distracting me from the world I want to be apart of. Nah that sounds stupid, I think that's situational. I'm more concerned about the constant dopamine hit. I read about a thing called dopamine fasting where you can only really meditate, drink water, write and sleep for a whole day, apparently it's supposed to reset the reward centres of your brain. Maybe the reason I can't help but binge watch tv is because those reward centres are so outa' whack it's become like an addition/withdrawal cycle. I might give it a go on a weekend. It sounds rough but also exciting. Maybe I'll start listening to white noise. That might let me concentrate on my work without giving me that dopamine hit. Although sometimes I wonder if I'm really listening at all or if I'm basically already using music as a white noise generator.

So this probably wasn't as exciting or insightful as you're probably used to but I am concentrating on not getting hit by cars so this this'll have to do. I had something else to talk about but I can't remember what it was. I think maybe the drugs are starting to destroy my short term memory. There's a great song about this very subject!

Oh yeah I need to learn to drive. That's probably a good goal. I'll come back to this later.

Update: I actually made it to work pretty quick. Looks like having something to focus on is good. Cool.