Use of technology by different Amish affiliations

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Whenever I have to do something to a close deadline I develop an unstoppable fascination with something completely random and unrelated to what I have to do or any of my existing interests. And I become so much into that stuff that I cannot do anything else until the deadline is so close that to meet the deadline I have to work non-stop up to the very last minute to the deadline. And while I am working I suffer so much because I want to do that other thing so badly. As soon as the deadline passes and I am free to do whatever I want I never come back to that other thing I was so much into. I don't even get then why I was so interested in that thing before.

So I am on the below now and it is the most interesting and important thing in the world to me at the moment. I have no idea how I lived up to this day without digging into this:

Use of technology by different Amish affiliations

Comments

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Avoidance is a helluva drug.

Now you can go read up on what tech Hutterites and Mennonites reject, as well!

[topum.livejournal.com]

Yes. You seem know how this vicious spiral works. In the end I will find myself watching videos of some cat dressed in Amish garb singing Sintatra's songs on Youtube thinking how the hell did I get there and why or why have I lost all that time.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Totally know this situation. It's not the worst to be in: that's not having enough time to even do the thing you have to, much less the thing you're actually doing in place of the thing you are supposed to be doing. But it's still a bit overwhelming.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Oh I do it even when I do not have enough time to do the thing I need to do and especially then. And then I would just cut corners (and get incredibly creative at it) and not sleep and do what I had to do way worse than I could have done and feel awful about it, etc. I would not be able to hold any job except the one I had (on a trading floor). I must be one of very few people who are thankful for the existence of investment banks these days. I think I would definitely be homeless and living in the streets otherwise.