Reflection 2022
These past two weeks, I have made a bad habit of staying up late on Discord and Twitter. This has caused me to suffer from a variety of things such as loss of sleep due to me being up until around eleven o clock some nights, and it being bad for my eyes, which are already really bad, having gone up 200 degrees over the past two years, and meaning that I have had to get better glasses. On top of this, my school is entirely online, meaning that I spend a large amount of time on a screen nonetheless.
There is also the matter of sleep. When I go onto a screen up until eleven o clock, I often still end up staying up for a little bit longer as my brain needs to calm down after hours of looking at a screen, meaning that I end up falling asleep at around eleven fifteen, which is even worse. In order to try to compensate for this, I end up staying asleep for longer and not wanting to get out of bed in the morning as I haven’t been sleeping enough. Me not sleeping enough can also cause some other issues such as me not being able to focus as much on my work, me not wanting to go out and do things during the day, and my performance in activities such as tennis and drums decreasing.
Now, my end goal is for me to have none of these issues. I want to reverse the damage to my eyes as much as possible and get a healthy sleep schedule. The part about sleep is definitely achievable as thankfully I have not caused too much damage to it yet. I can definitely fix it within one or two weeks of going to sleep earlier and putting my devices downstairs every day from six in the evening so that I am not tempted to get them before bed. I will also make sure that I get up from bed every day by six-thirty in the morning so that I do not stay in bed for so long that it becomes unproductive.
My eyesight, however, is a different story. Repairing and preventing further damage to my eyesight is something that is going to take months of work and a lot of effort, but it is something that is going to be necessary for the sake of my eyes.
Fixing my eyesight is something I will have to do via months of new, better micro habits. These include things such as limiting the time I spend on the screen as much as possible. This will be difficult as I spend a few hours a day on a screen nonetheless due to school, but I will have to try to limit my screen time during breaks and outside of school as much as possible. On top of this, I will have to spend fourteen hours a week outdoors and looking for so that I can help my eyesight and take a break from the screen. This will be difficult with my school being online as I may not be able to go out as much as I may like on the weekdays, but I can compensate for this by spending more time outdoors during the weekend. Doing things such as going to the beach, going to the pool, going to Blue Tree, and more. I will plan my outdoors for the week on Sunday evening every week with some input from my parents to check if the time I want to do certain activities will work.
Another few micro habits I would like to work on, although (arguably) not as major as my eyesight or sleep schedule, are brushing and flossing my teeth every morning and evening, something I have been slacking off on for the most part, and working on my Tabata exercises every morning so that I can get into better shape and become stronger.
These are all things that I will have to consciously do every day for days, weeks, even months to achieve some of these goals, and my instincts will tell me not to do it and to be lazy, but I will have to constantly fight those instincts and do what is good for me instead of what I want to do. As if I only do what I want to do, I will end up becoming an unproductive human being who is out of shape and with terrible eyesight, which is something that I want to avoid at any cost.
