If you check a post every five minutes, it isn’t a post anymore. It’s an exam you gave yourself.
REFLECTION
WHAT THIS MEANS
Once you are refreshing something every few minutes, the activity has changed shape. You are no longer sharing a thing, you are waiting on a score, and the score is set by whoever happens to be awake and scrolling. That is a test you wrote, sat and marked yourself, using other people’s idle attention as the grade.
Post it and then put the phone somewhere else for two hours. If the number is what you are really after, notice that, and ask what you were hoping it would tell you.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
How often do you check something you already posted?
MORE IN MINDSET & IDENTITY
- Being the oldest means you’re the first draft of everything in your house. Be kind to yourself about the edits.
- “Mature for your age” sometimes means you had to grow up early. You’re still allowed to be a kid about some things.
- People who make fun of you for trying have often stopped trying themselves. Their laugh is about them.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.