Making changes

John Myhill asks: what will you change in yourself in 2018?

'I feel that contact between people has been reduced to communication a machine could handle...' | Photo: Eric Tastad / flickr CC.

Can we, at a personal level, make real changes to our lives in 2018? I find giving things up to be very beneficial: not driving a car, not eating meat and other animal products, and not working for money have each been leaps forward in my life. So, on my seventieth birthday next September, I plan to give up the internet. To give something up seems to require three elements.

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