Facebook (when that was still a platform young people used). I would obsessively scroll through it for hours each day, basically trying to look at and comment on EVERYTHING. On a whim, I decided to take a break from it for a month. By the time the month was up, I realized I didn’t miss it at all, and that was that. One of the big takeaways was that I thought that I was forming relationships with the people I’d comment back and forth with, but in reality these were people who I would never hang out with outside of school and barely even talk with in school (if at all); it was all just superficial, and I was better off spending time talking to my actual friends.
It wasn’t that bad, but in high school I mindlessly got into the habit of drinking a few cups of Coke each day (I think it started because I would get a 2 liter whenever I’d order pizza). I quit it pretty much cold turkey, and not only did I stop drinking it at home, I no longer order it at restaurants either, which is something I did ever since I was a little kid. The idea of just buying a bottle of soda and drinking it is straight honestly grosses me out now even though getting a can or bottle from a vending machine was something I’d do without thinking. The one exception is when I’m pigging out at the movies with a bucket of popcorn, but that’s pretty rare.
May 4 fell on a Thursday most recently in 2023, 2017, and 2006. That build screams 2006, but both the Core 2 Duo and the x1950 Pro wouldn’t be out until later that year, and there wouldn’t actually be a Core 2 Duo with those specs until 2008 (the E8500 with 3.2 GHz–as far as I can tell there was never a Core 2 Duo with a precisely 3.2 GHz base clock). So this would have been a build that was quite long in the tooth when this was made (assuming it was made through texting a buddy and not a janky meme generator).