Cognitive Dissonance
This is a traded post with sam, their post is here
Cognitive, meaning of the mind and thought Dissonance, meaning out of sync
That is my understanding of the two words - not what they actually mean.
So, I would like to extrapolate this to Wanting to do something and not for some inexplicable reason
Often I find myself wanting to do something, specifically what I had written about in one of my recent posts Loneliness - Photography.
But today is overcast and why would I do something I know will let my mind wander to places that make me anxious.
We are all constantly surrounded by distractions, stimulation - music, youtube videos, people, things to do. Arguably the healthiest of these distractions would be people, I see socialising as much more productive in that sense than watching youtube or playing video games all day.
One philosophy I've been subconsciously following for a while now is assuming others are having the same problem I am. In this context that means I have the problem that I feel lonely and am distracting myself with media, I know my friends spend a lot of time on there phones, maybe they are also distracting themselves from something?
I had written about this in one of my first posts Using Overthinking as a Tool.
I never feel myself great at concluding writing. That is why I have Make your own meaning in the footer of my blog. Maybe there is a bit of dissonance between what I think I am writing and what comes out in words.