The Zen of "Mythical Reel Pulls" - by P.E. Moskowitz

I have been very burnt (burned?) out recently (apologies for letting my Mental Hellth posting schedule slip for the last few weeks, I’m getting back on track, I swear!). Part of the burnout is just having too much work to do and feeling like getting through it all is a slog. And part of it is that the world, as usual, feels bad. I keep seeing news of heat waves and deaths from floods and feel like …. what the fuck am I doing? In all likelihood, I just need a break. Or several. But I have work commitments and life commitments I must complete before I take that break, and so, for the last several weeks, I have found myself giving myself breaks in probably the worst way: by becoming re-addicted to the internet, and specifically to Instagram Reels. As I’ve written previously, I think that social media is largely harmful—it can act as a kind of drug, inuring us to our surroundings so that we feel we need not change them, placating us so that we have just enough dopamine to continue living t

I have been very burnt (burned?) out recently (apologies for letting my Mental Hellth posting schedule slip for the last few weeks, I’m getting back on track, I swear!). Part of the burnout is just having too much work to do and feeling like getting through it all is a slog. And part of it is that the world, as usual, feels bad. I keep seeing news of heat waves and deaths from floods and feel like …. what the fuck am I doing? In all likelihood, I just need a break. Or several. But I have work commitments and life commitments I must complete before I take that break, and so, for the last severa