February 16 - Wrestling the Bear - Daily Drop #1

Sometimes we’re confronted by an enemy so wily, so unruly, so cunning, that it plagues us. Perhaps we defeat it sometimes, but it keeps coming back. Perhaps we never manage to defeat it, and we’re always left bruised and battered. Or, perhaps this enemy is extra cunning. Perhaps we never get to fully encounter it. It eludes us. Like a ghost on the edge of our vision, whenever we turn to face it, it disappears!

My enemy - the bear that I’m wrestling with - has a little of all of the above. Sometimes I get on top of it, managing to get it under control, only to find myself tumbling down the hillside a few weeks later, being mauled and bitten as I fall. Sometimes I can go a long time without really feeling like I’ve got it under control at all. I surrender then, and allow myself to be eaten. I mean, why bother? I’m just going to lose anyway! And sometimes I’m not even aware that I am being overpowered. Blindly, I’m in the grip of the monster. Pinned down. My lights going out. And I don’t even notice!!!

The enemy I’m talking about? The bear that mauls me?

Screens.

TV screens. Monitors. Mobile phone screens.

They all captivate my attention. They drag me down rabbit holes that devour time until there’s little else left in my day. And sometime I don’t even notice! I blink and realise “oh, I’ve been wandering around the woods of Reddit for hours!” And all this when I’d planned to clean my damn room like Jordan Peterson used to say (before he seemed to lose the plot of Twitter - which I know about because I’m on there so much recently!!!)

So, yeah, screen are the bear I wrestle with on a regular basis, and they’ll be a part of what I’ll discuss in these posts, as I continue to learn how to master the unruly beast.

And I’ll talk about other things too. Insights I pick up alone the way as I work. My thoughts on living a good life. Sometimes just my feels on that particular day.

Stay tuned for more!