The start of Something new

I have thought a lot about starting this thing, now that everything is setup correctly I actually have to write it. I hope you’ll enjoy it :)

How did we get here?

I see this blog as part of my journey to regain control of myself and my mind. In the last couple of years, going through major historical events and wars, experiencing the endless stream of news, missile alerts and horrible videos coming from all kind of places not that far from my home the only way I found myself coping with all of this is muting everything with short form content, endless scrolling and basically ignoring everything that happened.

After finishing my military service and moving out this became even worse. I found myself spending literal days on my phone and watching TV, ignoring basic home tasks from washing the dishes and laundry to even doing groceries in the first place.

My 26th Birthday is when I decided I need a change. Something about this number, 26, made me realize that I’m not as young as I think anymore and that I must take real responsibility about my mental well being.

Then what is this?

In the several weeks that have passed since my birthday I have made a few changes in my life.

• I have deleted most of the apps on my phone. Some because they made me feel bad, others because I felt they gave me close to no value in my day to day life.
• The apps that survived the purge has been restricted with app timers. The longest being around 30 minutes a day.
• I got back into reading, I finished a book in about a week, reading in every free moment I had, since now, there’s nothing to do on my phone.
• I bike to and from work everyday (even if it’s raining)
• I have set up a todo app workflow for myself. ensuring I never forget to do anything anymore

All of these changes made the thoughts and curiocity come back. The last couple of years have muted this part of my brain to the extent I find myself getting weirdly excited about having mediocre opinions about the simplest things.

This overwhelming shift came fast. I cannot just “turn off” my brain anymore so I need a place to express myself. Since social media is a shell of it’s former self, basically becoming an endless stream of mediocre content that is stimulating enough to keep you in, eliminating almost any connection to your friends and family I knew that these places weren’t the right place for me.

After researching a bit on the internet, I came across this tool called “Hugo” that turns basic markdown files into the full blown website your’e reading this on right now. This means all I have to do is provide the content (like this very post) and a little bit of configuration, and “Hugo” will do the rest for me automagically. Freeing me of the concerns of web development and letting me just write down my thoughts.

What to expect?

I don’t know what the future holds. This might be the last post I put on here (even thought this is the first one). I might realize that writing in my second language is not the optimal way to expression I was looking for. But here is what I hope will become of this website/blog/whatever you want to call it.

I strive for a weekly post, summarizing my progress, setbacks and experiences along the way in this journey that hopefully ends when I’m a retired goose farmer in a rural place after a long and respectful career in tech.

This is only the start, and if you’ve read this far into this random post on this random website I hope you’re as excited as I am to see where all of this will go.

I am not looking for fans or followers, just a place to put my thoughts in to ease off my mind. This is the start of something new.

Kovler :)