The Same's Experience of Another

// 18 days without: Review//

A few weeks ago I finished my eighteen days without: weed, the Internet, clocks, and indoors. Now I’ve had a little while to get back to life withthese things I feel I should speak about my experience.
Weed: My time away gave me a greater appreciation for it again and less desire to do it so often.
Internet: I became far more, for lack of a better word, proactive. More reading, more writing, more meditating. Strangely I met up with less people — though I suspect it was simply because of the novelty of doing completely different things that kept me occupied. I think this one is completely linked with my giving up indoors as well.
Clocks: Turned out to be kind of pointless; made it a lot harder to meet up with people. I don’t use clocks enough anyway for it to have made much of a difference. Having said that, it was nice only knowing how much of the day I had left from the sun, it felt like a far better way to judge a day.
Indoors: This is the big success story. I spent so much time watching sunrises and sunsets, clouds, just nature: a far better way to live. I didn’t get that stifling feeling of boredom in my chest, I’d just hop up on the shed and watch the sky. Though my time outdoors did cost my my ipod and phone, both of which got soaked on two different occasions. If it wasn’t so damn rainy now I’d be back outside in the tent.

// 18 days without//

Today I start my eighteen days without: the internet, weed, clocks and indoors.
The Internet I’m doing without so I can find out what I’ll do during the day — will I become more productive or find some other way to procrastinate?
Weed I’m doing without because until recently (the past few years — especially these past 365 days) I have been doing it a lot and I really feel like being far more productive with my life.
Clocks because I want to see if I will become happier while working on natural time rather than the arbitrary clocks. It is said that people with wrist watches are more stressed than those without so I’m stepping it up a notch and seeing how I’ll fair without it.
Indoors, obviously I’ll still go indoors but only to dosomething rather than just sit around. Also this will minimise any artificial light that I’ll get so I’ll be working on the natural day. Abiding by the 3.8 billion years of natural light and time affecting our evolution must be more healthy than the some one hundred year that we’ve actively used clocks.