{"id":233,"date":"2012-12-15T19:53:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T00:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tamh.info\/?p=233"},"modified":"2013-02-02T23:56:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T04:56:31","slug":"abstinence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamashii.co\/en\/abstinence\/","title":{"rendered":"Abstinence syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My life is quite simple, from home to my workplace, from my workplace to my home. Intertwined with that, I play video games, I see videos and anime, even normal stuff like sleeping.<\/p>\n<p>However, what I take as my path on life, is the fact that I spend 16 hours of my daily life in front of a PC. 10 hours in the office, and 6 or more in my home.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a custom now, part of my life, and it&#8217;s very difficult to change. So much so that when my computer went pray of a hardware failure, it was painful, uncomfortable and stressing. But, why?<\/p>\n<p>First, the fact that my computer can display so much stuff about me, and that it would stay in a place outside my &#8220;jurisdiction&#8221; was evil for me. I cleaned up my computer and took out all my information (maybe in the inverse order), but there&#8217;s always something left out, or some program will do magic and everything that can be used to track or find out who am I gets shown as an open book (specially in my case, as I spend so much time looking at this bright rectangle with keys).<\/p>\n<p>But the most aggravating of all situations, is the &#8220;what can I do&#8221;. Every day, I watch at least one anime episode, or I play some Phantasy Star Online 2\/Dragon Nest\/Spiral Knights quest. I watch videos on Internet. I search songs. I read, and a lot. But without my PC, I feel bad. There&#8217;s always a PC in my home, and I have a separate user account there, but it&#8217;s not the same. My Internet browser is not there, my games are not there, my apps are not there. Even worst, my anime is not there.<\/p>\n<p>Call me addict, because that&#8217;s what I am. My need to absorb information, to see new things, to talk to my friends and known ones is really high, and when I can&#8217;t make it true, I get abstinence syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>Even when I didn&#8217;t have Internet service, around one year ago, I was able to go on. My PC was there, my games were there and some anime I had as a reserve where there. I has something available to do. With my PC as is, I was empty.<\/p>\n<p>I know that I could be doing better stuff in my life, and that my computer it&#8217;s not an extension of my life. But for right now, there&#8217;s not a semblance of truth in those statements. And, even if that whole issue just went by, and I&#8217;m sitting in front of my little magic box, I can&#8217;t seem to forget how I went up walls, hung up my ceiling and burned my hands, when I didn&#8217;t have it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My life is quite simple, from home to my workplace, from my workplace to my home. Intertwined with that, I play video games, I see videos and anime, even normal stuff like sleeping. However,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamashii.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamashii.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamashii.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamashii.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamashii.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tamashii.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamashii.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamashii.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamashii.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}