for me, it helped seeing the pattern i unconsciously followed. there was this particular game i used to play a while back and i’d listen to music with it. so it was hours and hours of this game and music in the background. didn’t even realize how much time i was spending listening to songs just because of this game.

another thing was tik tok. back in 2018 when it was just staring out to be popular. there were so many new songs i came across on it.

in april 2020 went ahead deleted spotify, anghami & tik tok. it was not something i was planning on doing (like a lot of people want to stop but i didn’t ever think of it like that) it was more so of an impromptu decision. so far one of the best ones i’ve ever taken

that game was there tho. but since i couldn’t play songs while playing it, it just lost its meaning. i didn’t force myself but slowly and surely i stopped playing that game too.

we live in a world where not listening to music is difficult. you open a youtube video and even if it’s got nothing to do with music, it still has a song playing in the background. we just can’t avoid it. what we can do is stop ourselves from getting some sort of enjoyment out of it. if you don’t enjoy it, you’ll eventually stop giving it importance & most likely find other things that can replace it.

hope this helps you in some way :)