4 months / 4 weeks
Nearly four months ago I decided to give up meat and seafood. Just to be clear: I’m still consuming eggs and dairy products (albeit as little as possible). Vegetarianism was only one of my 2020 resolutions.
I also decided to not log into Twitter or Instagram any longer. I haven’t used Facebook since 2013–14. Social media felt superfluous in the kind of life I wanted to create for myself. Disclaimer: I still use the Goodreads app to keep track of my books although I’d argue that the social evils of a reading app are extremely limited.
End of April will mark four months of my vegetarian, social media-free lifestyle.
Add to these voluntary changes the now nearly 4 weeks long confinement triggered by the Coronavirus pandemic in France. Four weeks of being in a studio, going out for groceries weekly and a short walk around the neighbourhood every other day.
Needless to say, being in quarantine means repetitive days with hours of free time to fill with daydreaming, agonizing, screen time, sleeping and eating.
So what have I learnt in these 4 weeks within these soon-to-be 4 months? The following is an evolving list of my recent thoughts (in no particular order):
Lessons (updated on 24 April 2020)
- Freedom homes in the mind. I can be stuck in the tiniest space with very little…
