Cat´s silent week experiment

Day 1:

Woke up early to go to work today, due to the constant traffic issues caused by some construction work. I had an itch to pop some headphones on, despite most of the time commuting without them. I told myself we are not doing this today, and I can cope for a week. Browsed reddit instead. I had a lot of noise at work, but none of it was by choice. I came home in the same silence I travelled with in the morning. To make things harder, I had to take the bus today as my brother couldn´t pick me up like he usually does, making my commute way longer than I would like to. Luckily the bus connection was okay.

When I came home, I considered putting some background noise on, but managed to rest in silence. I eventually ended up falling asleep for a mini nap that i wouldn´t be able to do if i was distracted. I finally made myself wake up by taking a shower and now we get to the interesting part of having to survive like 3 more hours of entertaining myself in a hopefully little more mindful way. I´m already falling on face, this won´t be easy

Proud to be a part of the secret cat post club😋

I should try this too

As a chronic multitasker I literally feel what you are going through, it's amazing that you are prioritising your mental health, and what you are doing is just too good, keep up, and do share the updates so we keep you reminded to take care of yourself✨

Day 2:

It´s only day two and it´s getting hard. Before and after work, I keep being haunted by song snippets in my mind that make me want to listen to the song. I fought a hard battle on the youtube shorts ground, and while they are technically not really against the challenge as long as they have my full attention, I managed to control myself and snap out of it after like 1-3 shorts, what happened around 2-3 times during the evening. I tried to play a little with my coloring app, but it was a big mistake, as that´s when i listen to most stuff. Pavlov reflex kicked in and all I wanted was something, anything to listen to. Stood my ground and coloured in silence, but couldn´t help the song snippets in my mind. And that´s how my neighbours and family got to enjoy a very flawed rendition of "Under your scars" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

things I noticed so far:
- singing a lot (it´s probably viewed in a positive light by only me and the local ear plug sellers 😂😂😂😂)

- having a really cool idea about how to give my work uniform into a little seasonal mood for a holiday I´m looking forward to

- feeling incredibly tired as my body´s needs are not tuned out by constant distraction attempts

- having deeper and more engaging interactions while talking to someone where I would usually multitask

5 more days ahead

Day 3:

Been too tired the entire day to care about sounds, as I had to wake up early, go to work and only rest after coming home. I ended up watching my bf stream a game for me and colouring a bit in my app later. Yay.

Hiiii! Secret cat club? I’m in hehe

Day 4: travelled to a 3 day mini holiday. I didn't really have an opportunity to be bored or consider audio distractions, but I surely got annoyed by my travel squad a few times lol. I'm exhausted from the astounding 2 hours in car with a mid break (central Europe distance spoiled). But as of now, I'm not really craving any sounds. In fact I want peace and quiet after the constant talk around me 😂

Night 4 diaries:

Not having access to WiFi or my pc is lessening my need to listen to stuff, as I'm too scrooge to drain my data on video or audio stuff. I actually found a book containing 4 shorter novels and I got to reading. I'm on page 74, and having a good time

Day 5:

Had a resting day, read a lot and visited my uncle and his family. It was very nice and I didn't need any audio distractions. But tomorrow will be hard, as i will need to manage on my own.