11:43 AM (of Wednesday, January 1 2025)
Today is Tuesday, December 31st 2024, and it's the last day of the year. Just like yesterday, I started off today doing pretty well. I made my bed, brushed my teeth, checked my weight (174.8 pounds), and then did my brain training. All of these activities only take around an hour, and they are so productive. After my brain training, I did some vegan activism by posting on X and Threads. I don't know if I can do anymore speaking up for the animals than this, but I also wear a vegan shirt everywhere now, and I donate to plant-based/vegan charities.
The rest of the day, I wasted my time. I played the games I installed a few days ago again, and spent several hours on them. I even kept on playing the game that I beat, that I already spent 13 hours on, and I spent another 2-3 hours on that. And I also played this other game, The Demonized, and I got to rank 10 in that game. I uninstalled it though. These games are addicting and can really take your time. There was no point in getting rank 10 out of hundreds of players. It doesn't make any difference in anything. That's why I had to quit and uninstall it
The worst punishment came at night time, when I had a list of tasks I wanted to get done today, and I ended up working all the way up to New Year's and not finishing. I stopped working at around 11:55 PM, feeling frustrated and knowing I would not finish. I gathered with my parents and celebrated the New Year's as always, and I ate a New Year's meal with them. We have a family tradition of having 12 different fruits to represent the new year, and eating sticky foods like sticky rice, biko, ginataan, suman, bibingka, kalamay, kutsinta, etc. for good luck and wealth, and long foods like spaghetti for a long life, all vegan of course. These are superstitious traditions, and I think they need to be abandoned because I also abandoned all my superstitions today.
Today I also gave up on all my superstitious beliefs. I stopped coin flipping. I stopped the clockwise, counter-clockwise superstitious beliefs. I stopped the stepping over superstitious belief. I've stopped superstitious beliefs in general. I could go into detail about each one, but it's fine to just say none of them were grounded in reason, and they were all unproven and uncorrelated with each other. Walking clockwise around a table doesn't mean good luck, walking counterclockwise doesn't mean bad luck, the direction in which I go around an object doesn't correlate to anything, so it's time I abandon unfounded beliefs like that.
The pain I suffered from not completing my tasks had to be felt. I had to suffer for my actions today of procrastinating and not working on my tasks. I also suffered because I spent many hours playing games and wasting time. Sometimes the only way to get better is to first face the repercussions of making bad choices.
Anyway, that was my day today, and the last day of 2024. I hope 2025 is much better.
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