12. Feeling Guilty About Your Lack of Productivity Compared To Others
You've read every article about productivity going on the 'net, but somehow reading those articles about how to transform your lazy days into productive, all-consuming, world-conquering, creativity-blossoming events, and about those artistic, creative people who do this every day, takes more time than actually settling down to work. That's the appeal of those articles; they motivate your inner self into becoming more productive than you're actually ready to be at that moment in time. Sure, you might feel like you could tackle painting an entire chest of drawers and baking several cakes in the shape of cartoon characters, but you'll get halfway through, if you're lucky, and find that you're running on steam and broken dreams. You become disenchanted. So instead you realise you've spent your day researching artists and bakers and designers and crafty people on Netflix and on the Internet, rather than actually buckling down and doing some work. And then you feel sad.
11. Getting Caught In A Pinterest Spiral
Pretty much the same as the Etsy spiral in principle, despite Pinterest being the digital equivalent of the hundreds of mood boards and mood board pieces you never realised you needed, from all across the world wide web. It's very, very easy to fall down this particular online rabbit hole. However, Pinterest manages to make it so everything you could ever love can go on your virtual mood boards, including favourite quotes from actresses, dishes you'll never try making, fictional characters you think you share your MBTI type with, kitchens that will not look good in real life as they do on the Internet, and best of all, the legendary wedding mood board for when you're single and an incredible forward planner. You can plan everything, except real life; and lose all of your free time. What times we live in.
