#instant gratification

[crazycatsiren]

I know this makes me sound like a cranky old millennial but, in this day and age of connections and communications, with our smartphones and computers and social media, it's really not healthy to expect constant and instant social interactions from anyone and everyone.

Sometimes people in your life just, don't want to talk, or can't, and more often than not it's nothing personal. Doesn't mean they don't like you anymore and doesn't mean they just want to ignore you.

Strangers on the internet also don't owe each other interactions. Somebody who doesn't even know you isn't obligated to respond to you. It's no different from strangers out on the streets in real life not having to interact with you. Again, a lot of times, people simply aren't up for conversations, nothing personal. People don't have to talk to people when they don't want to. People can just, exist.

No one should always be available, to always be reachable, online or offline.

[wifibovine]

ive had this yellow pikmin plushie for years and im still amazed by the dumptruck he's carrying in the back

[daddysroyalwhore]

“Please make way for the special invented armor

Mental protection if reality is ragin harder

Hello mister mime, hello medicine

I believe denial makes me hella intelligent”

[foxspit]

I always thought this photo would be way more popular than it was

[karmaholik]

I love instant gratification. It applies to my writing as well.

I'm 10k into writing an extremely long satosugu one-shot, and the gremlin that lives inside my brain goes: "You know, you could post that and just make it chaptered."

Today, I resist the urge. But tomorrow is a new day, and I might not have the strength.

[throughdoegaze]

How to fight demons of instant gratification

I really believe that the root of most of our problems comes from giving our energy and attention to the wrong sources. It has me feeling restless, bored, annoyed, easily irritated and whenever I get caught in the never-ending cycle I start to lack creativity.

So these are the habits I find the most effective when combating dopamine overstimulation.

I’s crucial to set boundaries through the entire day so:

- I never go on social media first thing in the morning, I don’t want to get bombarded by other people’s opinions/lives first thing when I open my eyes, and those 20 minutes are for me.

- I will always feel like stretching, and it will only take me 2 minutes because I don’t like to exercise without music

-mindfulness, I don’t really meditate because I feel as if viral meditation we see on socials has been so westernized its nothing like its supposed to be. I just sit and focus on my intentions for the day and try to ground myself (basically meditation lol)

- Eat a healthy meal (with protein, healthy fats and complex carbohydrates) if you are a person with ovaries and a menstrual cycle its good to cycle sync.

- do. not. eat. too. much. industrial. sugar!! it spikes dopamine levels. eat fruit. lots of it.

- exercise, I strength train 3 times a week and for me that’s enough because the body needs rest to build muscle

- whenever I indulge in a dopamine spiking activity I set a time limit, like playing games for 2hrs and I don’t overdo it

- following that, the rest of my free time I spend on a creative task, like writing or hanging out with friends, doing an alternative activity

-I do not watch porn (If you’re someone who struggles there are support groups all over the internet, you’re not alone)

- I do not scroll 30 minutes before my bedtime and take that time to journal and plan my day

[lyralu91]

The older I get the more I believe my addictions never really end, they just change form. It’s a treacherous, wonderful energy that locks my brain in a lustloop and charges a core of gratification, like an endless engine of highs.

/Lyra-Lu

[insight-chronicles]

Anyone else have that one task/chore that is literally the worst thing they can imagine?

For me it's laundry. I absolutely HATE it but it's not one of things that you can put off cus then it just becomes a bigger task but also I really don't want to do it more often so it's a small task.

I think it might have something to do with the fact that there are so many steps to it and I don't get that instant *Yay task is done*.

Instead I have to:

Put the washing in the machine

Wait for the machine to be done

Take the washing out the machine and hang it up

Wait (probably a minimum) of a day for the washing to dry (we have a heated drying rack for the winter as the tumble dryer only really works for larger loads like bedding etc)

Take the washing off the rack and fold it up and put it away

This shit doesn't work for my brain which basically /needs/ instant gratification in order to even consider doing a task 🤦🏼‍♀️

[monstruocities]

call your phone and open up my fate, 'cause I know you're so connected... I need poison, mitigate my pain. oh, feel my toes go golden, up in flames, give me false hope in my veins. tranquilize and modify my brain...

[1introvertedsage]

It’s crazy to me how everything is so ‘instant gratification’ esque and people are seemingly fine with it. Technology is great. But I also like to use my brain and my body.

Nothing waits anymore. There is no patience.

But if we’re truly meant to be One with nature and flow with nature we n e e d that patience. Waiting i s nature. You don’t plant a seed today and have a tree tomorrow. Things take time. Energy. Bodies of nature require the wait.

[annabel-lenore-lee]

a lot of being poor is waiting.

ive seen a lot of people online (tiktok mostly) talking about how instant gratification has ruined our ability to enact change in america. people go to one protest and then expect to see immediate reaction and this isnt how that works. of course, i wouldn't know what im talking about. im new to this. im just a kid.

what i do know is that where a lot of change is waiting, a lot of living poor is waiting as well. you wait for the bus when you dont have a car. you wait in line because the online fees to order things is too much. you wait for packages because who has the money for express shipping. you wait for your next paycheck and your next free day.

when you're poor, you wait for everything. you waste hours every day simply waiting and transitioning between things, and so many people don't know this until they're in it. this is how the system keeps people poor and unhappy and separate. you dont have time to find a new job that might pay more. you dont have time to focus on your own well-being when you're too busy trying to survive. you don't have time to think about the long-term future and your goals when all you can think about is how you're going to eat this week.

the recession has new poors struggling first because being poor fucking sucks, but also because they dont know how to wait.

the world needs to slow down. i bet i could draw almost every modern issue back to this.

still i find im too young to fix it.

[cookiefate]

Cookiefate for August 19th:

"Patience is a key to joy."

Instant gratification is the skeleton key.

[foxspit]

time to go

G shot by foxspit at seawall beach

[jbfly46]

Onion garlic, grass fed butter mashed organic potatoes (one of my favorite comfort foods), in a vacuum sealed portable form, where once you want to eat it, you heat it up using a method similar to how hand warmers heat up, and then you squeeze it out of the packet and into your mouth.

[linzani]

[skyjaber0019]

Taking my attention span back

My mind feels like it is rotting, and my focus is nonexistent. I'm going to be updating my journey and progress of what feels like resetting and reclaiming my mind through the intentional consumption of media, mindfulness, and remembering how to love and appreciate the slowness of day-to-day living.

Algorithms, doomscrolling, distractions, procratination, dumbing down, losing love of the mundane, unable to complete anything in one sitting, not being able to get out of bed, and not doing anything to help my apathy. I want to appreciate the beauty of living in a way I know I can if I can get my mind back from being festered.

I know my depression has encouraged this deterioration, but it is not all to blame nor the root of the problem. I will continue working to control it as normal, but this feels like a more controllable problem that can help improve my feeling towards being conscious while the depression feels more like a darkness in a brain I have been learning to live with.

I am making plans and trying to incorporate things that I know make me happy and present along with new ideas for things to try or need to start doing. I will be posting one or two times a week on here with updates to my feelings and experience, even if no one reads it. It's just nice to get it down and share some pictures of what I have been living.

I have always been a creative person who deeply feels and internalizes life, emotions, personalities, etc., and appreciates nature above all. I think I have forgotten this as I've grown up and experienced more pain, disassociation, loneliness, and apathy than I cared to recognize.

Feel free to share your own thoughts and experiences if you relate to anything I seem to be feeling. If there is a community or even a few people who want to join me, I can create a tag for us.

Take care. Remember your own mind.