If I want to get anywhere I need to act the part at least.

I think I've thrown off some useful habits out of a desire to be less pretentious and over-serious.

I'm intrinsically overly serious so why fight it?  

So, I'm thinking about regulating my time more carefully.

I've never owned a TV but I feel like my computer has become a television. I need to reduce the time I spend being passive and just taking things in and spend more time creating.

Maybe not growing up with TV has made me vulnerable. I'm like a person who has never tasted sugar.