Growing old is like a perennial battle against hubris. In your early twenties, you’d strike first and you’d strike anywhere. You are not bogged down by hypertension, migraines, lower back ache and all the other gifts of physiological aging that typically begin to happen sometime in midlife. It’s only in midlife where you learn how to optimize, declutter your time and energy and headspace, and begin thinking about other things like passing on good things to the next generation.
It takes me, on average, 2-3 months before I get wind of a social media trend or news. My other family members who still have active social media accounts are the ones who would clue me in on it. I was at a work-related conference on AI recently and the guy I was speaking with was asking me what life without having a regular social media account feels like. It was during that moment in the conference where people were exchanging Linkedin profiles that I realized how differently I use my internet connection now.
Summer is about to end here in Manila and we are experiencing the occasional drizzles ushering in the June rainy season. But my fever for my newfound routine has been going along swimmingly. The walking pad I bought from Shopee has been a godsend; even on days I did not hit my 8 hours of sleep, I still manage to do a light physical activity to jumpstart my morning. Much of the brain fog has been reduced, my usage of my gadgets have been intentional, and nobody has been hijacking my attention on my inboxes lately.