meridian_rose

On the first day of Lent I saw a twitter poll that asked "Do you think your mental health would improve if you gave up Twitter for Lent?" Answers Yes/No/Maybe. I picked maybe and thought, ok, let's give it a go.
This is part of the reason I'm around DW more.
Also more Youtube. I am Alfred in the Lego Batman: Family Matters, who watches a video on selling the company and then one about getting jars open and so on, even one on how to claim for tire theft on home insurance. There is a video for everything, as the villain also watches one on how to set up dummy corporations.

I'm not even using the loophole of Sundays because I'd fall back into the habit of checking Twitter too easily. I did not know until very recently that Lent is 40 days but the Lent period 47 but Sundays don't count.
I was also amazed when watching The Exorcist (TV) for first time when Marcus asked when the Mother Superior's daily hour off from her vow of silence was. There are loopholes which surprises me and makes me think better of faith when it acknowledges our essential flawed humanity.
On the other hand Evil (TV), "S is for Silence" had a monastery with a strict vow of silence lest any spoken word free the demon the monastery exists to contain, an interesting but not unique take on silence in horror fiction.

Twitter is the only place I've found people willing to question government narratives, who early on spoke against the Left becoming authoritarian and hypocritical about bodily autonomy, but it has always been rather hard-Left middle-class and does not reflect the majority of people's lived realties, experiences, and values. While it can be useful or entertaining, it can be an easy to use distraction.
Too easy, too time consuming. As such it's probably good to take some time away. Write more. Read more. Dabble at Dreamwidth more. And yes, watch videos of recipes and crafts I'll probably never make (though my crafting exploits continue, fodder for a post in the future perhaps).

And...I was going to put a poll up for who is doing Lent in some form but polls are paid only now? Okay.