After a long chat with one of my best friends this weekend, I have come to realize that it's time to take a break from social media. I use it as such a time suck and its practically worthless to my life. I enjoy seeing what people are up to, but it is making me exceptionally lazy with my relationships and I waste so much time sifting aimlessly through posts that I don't care too much about rather than looking people up purposely to see how they are doing.
I am trying to simplify my life. I want to spend more time outside or reading, or doing something that matters to me. I want to combat my laziness that is so much perpetuated by staring at my phone. There are so many things that I claim I have no time to do when really I am just wasting that time.
I'm not trying to be all high and mighty, I just feel like I need to make some changes in my life that revolve less around pointless technology and aimlessness. I want to simplify and repurpose and I feel like this is the best way for me to do it right now. I also think that I would focus more on this blog if I do this.
I'm not saying that I'm going to give it up forever; I'm looking at it more as an experiment. I want to get back to personal relationships. I want to gain back the time that I feel I'm wasting. I want to finally finish the book that I am reading. I want to finally finish all of my thank you cards. I want to go back to studying history. I want to finally try some new recipes. Having a clean apartment all the time would also be nice.
So I guess instead of saying so long, I should say "goodbye for now". Starting December 1st I am deleting Facebook off of my phone. I may get rid of Instagram for a while too. That one is harder but that may be the reason that it's necessary.
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