Do You Keep Your Priorities Intact?

How is your mental health? Is there something that bothers you? How did April go for you? Did you do something to be proud of? Where have you been putting your energy of?

It is crucial to keep our minds and body stable because living a life with our well-being as a priority assures us a harmonious existence in this world.

Living in a material world

Sometimes we get caught up in things that it makes us harder to bounce back and recover the basics. Pleasures and temptations are everywhere. Social media greatly contributes to that.

As someone who has the luxury of time in the house to do whatever I can becomes a huge temptation also of just do nothing and be unproductive. When my day becomes a circulation of social media and a detachment of myself from the real world really consumes a lot of time and when I recall what I do for that day before I sleep, it's something not to be proud of. I'm not productive.

However, when you get overwhelmed by something as well, you lose this sense of reality and just enter that world without reservations.

I have shared a couple of times already on noise.cash how huge of a fan I have become when Ben&Ben performed at my university. I was really ecstatic watching them perform. The day after that, I began to follow the social media accounts of the members and I got so inspired by their stories about how they began as musicians.

They became my ultimate motivation that introverts can go out and perform in front of a crowd singing with them. That made me realize that things are slowly making sense to me now. They could be the missing piece of motivation I have been longing for to keep that fire in my heart to do music.

There are a lot of things to work for. I like their personalities a lot. I can totally relate to work. They share the same spectrum of personality which makes the bond tighter and stronger because it isn't so hard to understand each other.

Going back, they have consumed my energy a lot but it's not something I regret because they gave me motivation and inspiration to do music more. I got caught up in the things happening within their circle that I forgot to go back to my reality.

I have also shared the other day that in order for me to write an article effectively, I had to uninstall Twitter and Instagram because these two applications on my phone consume a lot of my time and energy. Uninstalling them gave me space and time to breathe away from social media too.

I forgot to watch myself.

One thing I noticed when I consumed too much of my time online was my body clock. I have been waking up early like 5 am and find it hard to go back to sleep. I tried to sleep late as I expect myself to wake up later than usual but it's not working.

And so, I had to change my routines. It could greatly affect my earnings but what I'm more concerned about is my health. How can I work for my personal needs and my family's needs if I don't take care of my well-being?

That being said, I would like to remind you as well to take care of your bodies. It's an investment. It's our capital. If something goes wrong, we can't make money and the money we earn will be spent on medicines and others which should be the least of our concerns now.

I know something is wrong with myself when my vertigo acts up again. When I lack sleep, I easily get dizzy. I am like floating riding a boat feeling the waves as it grooves my body. I don't like that feeling.

I lost sight of my priorities.

What are my priorities? I need to remind myself this often because it is so tempting to use social media and get caught up by it the whole day! It is okay to learn about new things but again we need to find the right balance of setting priorities and doing fun.

While writing this, I know this is a priority but my hands feel like they make decisions of their own, open tabs or apps, and be distracted. I really need to work on my attention span and patience.

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Keep safe everyone!