It's been a while since I posted anything and honestly I forgot I had this blog. So for the year of my twenty first birthday I decided to clean up my life. I decided to go through my friends, settings, and just change up my habits. My first task was my friendships and my social media feed. Social media is a big aspect of my life, and can have a big impact on how I see my life. I started noticing that I would worry about what others thought of me, how I showed myself online, and how many likes a picture got to determine my beauty. Having noticed this I decided something needed to be done. What started as a school project turned into something I never even imagined.
The assignment was simple. Go twenty-four hours without social media and write a one page paper on the way you felt. Being me. I had to take this to the next level because I have to be different. I decided to cut out social media all together for as long as I could. First thing to go was Snapchat. I didn't need to know what everyone was eating or where they were going 24/7. Second was Facebook. Same thing I didn't really check Facebook and I didn't care what quotes people shared. Twitter was next. Twitter was the site I was on the most and made me feel the worst about myself. All my friends would post going to the parks all the time, what they bought, and just silly things like that. So I had in my mind that in order to be accepted I had to spend certain amounts of money, wear certain things, say certain things, and spend money on random Disney merch I didn't want nor need. After getting rid of all that I felt something odd.
I felt lost. When I went to use my phone in class I didn't know what to go on anymore having deleted it all. So I decided to find new hobbies, and new ways to kick the addiction. That was what this was an ADDICTION. I started to spend more time outside. I learned I love to go hiking, walking, and just looking around at the world that surrounds me. I started to spend more time with the people I love. I started to live in the moment instead of looking at life through a cellphone lens. It has now been over 3 months since the assignment and I am still for the most part going strong. Since the experience I deleted Twitter for good, because I found out how much I hate the website. I don't go on Facebook anymore, I do still use Snapchat, and Instagram just not like I was. I learned to live in the moment instead of capturing it.
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