10 Things I Don't Miss

Being surrounded by an endless parade of people, waiting in long lines, traffic, pollution, lack of access to nature, etc.

It's not the worst thing in the world until you start to feel like a caged zoo animal staring at a glowing screen all day, eyes blurry, trying to figure out why one formula among thousands of formulas in a spreadsheet isn't working, all while sitting motionless while your body is decaying in real time inside of a 6x6 cubicle in a sea of hundreds of cubicles and hoping beyond hope that if you're really good and work extra hours every weekend your boss who doesn't care that much about you will give you a 3% raise 10 months from now that won't even keep up with inflation.

But otherwise, it's not bad.

They're not. Like 99.8% of the time they're thinking about themselves, their troubles, and how they think everyone else is judging them.

About nine years ago I woke up one morning, yawned, and popped my right jaw joint out of place. It was one of the most painful experiences I've ever had, and it took months to heal. When it happened, I theorize that something pressed against a nerve near my right ear and I simultaneously developed a terrible ringing in my ear that never ceased. I couldn't go to sleep at night without two loud white noise machines on each side of my head. It was a nightmare.

THANKFULLY, I was blessed to have the ringing all but cease as my jaw healed. But in the process, I learned that millions of people are afflicted by tinnitus and it never goes away. Ever. It was also the most reported affliction by America's armed forces when they returned from fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

There is no cure.

Needless to say, the moral of the story is to TAKE CARE OF YOUR EARS. No loud music, keep the earphones turned down and wear earplugs if you're going to be around any extended loud noise. This is an affliction no one should ever have to experience.

I used to own a two-story, three-bedroom, three-bathroom house full of stuff I mostly didn't need. I sold the house in 2021 and got rid of half my belongings. It was liberating!

I have no one negative in my life whatsoever right now.

It was amazing from about 2007-2012. Then it slowly started to turn into a dumpster fire of unwanted (and often creepy) advertisements, political rants, and a general lack of privacy. I deleted my account a few years ago and haven't looked back.

Same as Facebook, for me it's time came and went. I canceled it about a year ago because it seemed like everything it recommended to me were B horror movies, an endless parade of serial killer series, and fantasy shows about dragons and magic and other such nonsense. Not that all the programming was bad, but there are better ways I can spend my time and money.

I talk about this all the time. Waking to alarm clocks is the scourge of modern society.