Draft - Short form videos and their effects

 It's important that I find my way through. Today morning something really interesting happened. Alright so today morning what I did was this. I started the morning and the first thing I took was a phone in hand. I think that's such a huge mistake. I also know it. Within no time I was on instagram. I was looking out for something interesting, but to no avail, there were reels about India Pakistan mostly and I was just scrolling through them. As I did that, I recognised that I have wasted around 2 hours just in reels. But the reality is that my day has not started and I have wasted 2 hours on reels. I know it's a holiday. I know it's chill. But in all that chill I have forgotten the fact that I will be delayed by a day if I waste these 2 hours on instagram. There are just so many things that can be done instead of instagram and we need to be focusing on that. I know it's fun to watch instagram reels but the problem that happens due that is immense. 

I am coming to the old saying again, that lust, anger and greed will destroy a man. I think instagram partly is lust. There is a part of instagram that does want you to feel the lust. With lust comes emotional instability. With emotional instability comes bad decisions and impulsive decisions. So in order to control all of that we just need to be grounded and stable. But well, I have said that multiple times before that we do not really need to remove but we need to replace. What if we replace the initial part that we have when we consider phone reels to music, or dance, or maybe reading, all of these are hobbies that you can add to your repertoire. It's not about staying away from the phone reel it's about staying close to your hobbies. It's about reading more. 

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Read great books like Bhagavad Gita and you will know the truth of life. I am not evangelising this principle but this is what has carried me throughout my years. I know we need to be reading more books. That does not mean stop writing and start reading books. In fact you can write at any time and you can read at anytime. The idea is that everything in life should have its own form of depth. Alright so I have asked copilot to do some research for me. But the reality is this. In my opinion the more dopamine you get from these things, the less you get dopamine from the bigger things in life. You should feel excited and happy to getting a new house. To working hard. To living your dream life. Not through instagram and temporary pleasure. Like I have said previously, it's not abut chasing temporary pleasure. It's about having fulfilment with the way you live in your life. That's more important. 

Pleasure is temporary. Pain is permanent. But we need to keep improving ourselves without becoming too complacent. If we become complacent, we will stop improving. I am at a stage where I am getting the benefits of improvement everyday. However, that does not really mean I become complacent and stop improving. I am enjoying the process. I am having fun working hard. I also love the job that I am doing. So it's not like I don't enjoy this. I enjoy success. I work hard for it. I love being successful. There's no going back to the other way of failing. I think success to me is career oriented and it's fine. That's how I think of success right now, when the times will have other things like I will have a wife, children, success will also mean making sure they are taken care of. They are happy kids when they grow up. They are also successful kids when they grow up. We need to be making sure that success is also not one dimensional. What matters the most to me is about having self control. You will have moments of weakness but self control will triumph everything else in life. If you are able to self control your desires, your lust, then you will be able to achieve big in life. I am not saying don't love people, don't haver desires at all, but unleash the desires when you have to, not everyday or every time. We got to maintain the structure of doing the work in one form. Making sure there's joy while working. After all, if you want to keep growing, self-control is the first thing in life.