A 24 hours non-food fast
It's July 7 and it's a moody Saturday with clouds, wind, a shy sun and some afternoon sleep for me. Some long unfortunately, that feels not refreshing at all and regret taking it. It has a background to back it up though. Although I am not a fan of prolonging my active hours beyond 00:00 AM, yesterday I was "alive" until 04:00 AM, due to a gathering and some cheap talks with friends that haven't meet each others for some long time.
I was expecting yesterday evening a friend of mine who lives in Sweden to come home for his vacation and after 20:00 he was in the neighborhood. We met shortly, exchanged some words and settled to go out a bit latter and catch up on us. And so we did it. BUT, while I was getting out of the house I got a phone call from another friend that lives at 200 km from me and came with other two in our home town for the weekend and guess what? They wanted also to meet, so we all gathered at a restaurant talking and laughing and almost forgot about time.
Not being accustomed anymore with "loosing track of time" and being out of bed after mid night, I had a too long sleep, in my opinion. It was 10:00 AM when I woke up and I knew that today was going to be grey. And I was right. Almost the entire day I was just around the house sleepy and not in mood for anything. Not even fishing. Not even Steemit...
Yeah not even Steemit.
In my almost five months since I am a member of the community I don't remember having one day without a post. Until today. Although I felt like I have "a mission" to post something every day and I really tried to find anything worth the effort really couldn't find. Thus I become just a reader of a few posts and not a contributor...until now. I have to say that I really felt throughout the day that I am missing something with this Steem experience and somehow excluded from a world that I am a part of for a few months ever day. Something similar to facebook...and how I usually felt when I had my account and skipped a day of online activity on it.
This situation got my thinking a bit also on why does it feel like this and whether have I become addicted to the platform and honestly evaluating myself I concluded that there is some addiction connecting me to my laptop keyboard or smartphone screen to this Steem world. One that seems similar to the facebook one.
I realized however that it's the same factors that make Steem almost as addictive as facebook was and there are two main ones: rewards and interaction. In the case of the "blue pill" it was likes and shares that rewarded my posts while in here it is about those Steem tokens rewards that I get from upvotes which fuel somehow my hands to write and brain to tune in on all sort of topics that might attract attention. Interaction through comments has it's respected place in the equation also.
The way I was expecting comments on facebook about my shared photos I am expecting in here also, willing to reply and get in touch with...generally people all over the world that I haven't met in my entire life. So the connections in here are somehow "strange" and only online. Taking a break from posting as usual as I did, I realized also that sometimes I am posting too much and that not all that I find worth reading and interacting on really is. Thus I will apply some "posting filters" for the future and focus on what really matters generally while sharing some personal experiences from time to time also. It's a personal blog after all.
However I did felt like an outsider of the Steem world after "fasting" for 24 hours with my blog...so here I am with my first "meal" for today.
PS: it started a strong summer rain while closing the article so I will add that too for the moody Saturday introduction.
Thanks for your attention,
Ace