I’m so inconsistent: a lesson on priorities

Taking Notes

So that post I made a while back about being back, not true.

In the beginning of the semester, I was adamant, every single class, I was going to take immaculate notes. In Object Oriented and Design, I was going to make a new note at the beginning of class, open up neovim, glance at the slide, and in 3 seconds I was going to replicate the exact same thing even the diagrams using Mermaid and tables in markdown.

Holy fucking shit is that tedious. So I have realized just now, that I need to change up my note taking game a little bit. I will go with the flow and take notes on the slides whenever I feel like it. Although, sometimes it feels like I can’t really rephrase what was already said on the slides. Should I turn 2 sentences in to 2 words? How exactly do I take notes?

I suppose this is a question that I will research and try it out.

Making blogs and priorities

Now for my next point, I’m also bad with these actual blog posts that are supposed to be somewhat regular. I feel like for pretty much everybody, attributing inaction due to lack of time is some kind of fallacy, I believe that most people have time out of their day to do something.

This notion appeared in my mind as I was doing homework today. Right after class on this Friday, I would go do homework. In the past weeks, I have done homework for my cybersecurity class but alas, the professor has locked the module and hasn’t responded to my email so I proceeded to do some work for my management class. As I was spamming my keyboard to write this paper, a person showed up in a table in front of me scrolling through social media. I figured, this also looks like the ideal type of person that complains about workload and sleeps for 3 hours a night. During that hour or so if typing out my paper, I would hear the phone audio of censoring sounds, giggles, and laughs every now and then. I was partially annoyed, partially self-cognizant of his behavior in comparison to my own actions. There have been times where I have scrolled through Lemmy for long periods of time because I either simply want to see the latest in tech news and other facets of my interests, or I want to waste time and procrastinate.

My own friend has told me that they have also spent an absurd amount of time doomscrolling through social media (although, maybe things were better had they used Lemmy instead of mainstream social media?…). I told them they should doomscroll sudoku instead since that’s something you have on your phone, can easily spend a bunch of time on, and actually engage your brain.

Going back to that one guy doomscrolling, people say they don’t have time for things, but in reality, they just don’t have enough motivation for doing things. When people say they don’t want to do something, it’s because they don’t actually want to do it. I asked a few of my friends if they want to go to a sports game with me and they said no because either money, time, time and money. These are limited resources but they have prioritized time for other things, whether it be for playing gacha games or more doomscrolling, they have decided that hanging out with some people at a sports game might not be for them.

Priorities is something we all have to do and obviously this person who was doomscrolling for an hour (probably even more at home) considered that his highest priority at that time.

It’s a shame that something like this only sparked in to my mind as I look outward and stare at other people. Better late than never I suppose.

So to the 0 readers reading this, I am sorry that I have not made this blog a priority, at times, I have chose that doomscrolling on Lemmy to be a higher priority. This will change.