Restarting your body and mind

Every Thursday I get blackout drunk. Usually with a different group of people and in different places and doing different activities to make it more fun. Over the week I push my body over its cognitive and physical limits which brings it to a state of exhaustion, sadness, and loss of motivation.

Your phone needs to be restarted regularly. Some companies might say otherwise, we have a lot of things that make sure of that, dating back years to how operating systems work. Processes can take up your CPU for eternity unless voluntarily given up, therefore we have time interruptions, where the kernel takes back the control of the CPU for a short amount of time to keep that from happening and lots of other reasons. But still, there are background processes, cached data and temporary files that just can't fully clear itself without a full restart.

I feel like computers and humans are kind of alike in some regards. I do need to restart myself every week or so in order to clear the thoughts on the back of my mind, even though it contradicts my previous essay.

Getting blackout drunk every now and then fully erases my memory of the events preceding to the blackout, (and most of that day) clears my thoughts, troubles, and responsibilities. Makes hard decisions easier and all the regrettable things more fun. Makes me be in the arms of morpheus and brings the craziest fever dreams to my mind, the kind that is there for a reason.

I am not a fan of it, but it is a very effective strategy to imagine oneself as a machine clearing itself. Perhaps the advanced automatons with neuralinks that connect to starlinks will be doing that in the near future instead of restarting.