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New muscle memory

So I gave up social media for a week to begin my summer. Well, yes I am posting on my blog and realizing that is social media technically, but what I really meant was Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest. My fingers fly on autopilot when I have even 15 spare minutes. Gmail.com to facebook.com to pinterest.com. Close that and tap the Instragram app. Muscle memory is amazingly strong. Do something over and over and it becomes a habit, you don't even need to think about it. Let your fingers run over those ebony piano keys for several years and those chords and scales will become like breathing. I remember laying my fingers on a keyboard in middle school computer lab and painfully practicing touch typing. aaa sss ddd fff. And now, I barely think about where the letters are on a keyboard until I stumble upon a word that is uncommon and long. And somehow now when I have 15 spare minutes I fly through those website and apps without even thinking that I may be able to do something more p