"When does it stop? When does it stop?!"
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2025
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For whoever needs to hear this: If this is happening and it's negatively affecting your life then try and talk to a friend or someone about it. They may not be able to help but opening up and being honest about it can help keep you responsible to yourself.
Honesty can “break” the cycle. I believe that was supposed to be the lesson people learned from Groundhog Day or any other piece of media with a time loop element.
me telling myself to do the thing when I'm on vacation
go on vacation
too tired to do the thing
blame myself for not doing the thing when I'm back working
You can skip steps 2-4 by realizing that all patterns repeat.
Me at work
This isn’t repeating it’s just repeating