DAY 1
After however many months, I am back...
Here's what's knew since I last posted. I got accepted into a University where I can now begin studying fashion. I'm on my own, living on-campus now. I'll give more detail on that in another post.
As you already know from reading the title of this post, I decided to go on a social media cleanse. I've done this twice before, and it is absolutely liberating... for the two days I'm actually gone.
I was on Snapchat when an ex of mine posted a really funny comparison of his professor to the iconic Edna from The Incredibles. I asked him to please post it to Twitter so I could retweet it (in hopes it would go viral). See, I have this strange obsession with Twitter. I could do without Instagram and Snapchat, I'm not really interested in seeing every aspect of someone's life, nor do I care enough to share every aspect of my own. Twitter though, I most definitely have a weird obsession with trying to make people laugh at my bold and quirky tweets. My Twitter although has become more of a fake persona, like Joanne the Scammer. Most of the stuff I put out there are meant as jokes, although at times I would say, my alter ego does show out.
Now, when I asked my ex to upload this video he shared with me that he had deleted Twitter from his phone. For some reason, in that moment it felt inspiring. Ever since I got to college I have made no friends. Given, it's only been two weeks and I arrived during the Spring when most people have already made their friends since Fall. I was beginning to find comfort in just hiding in my room after classes and only leaving unless I had a class. So I told him, "I'm going to delete mine now," and I did just that. Of course he didn't believe I could do it, and me being the way I am, accepted that challenge.
Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter... Goodbye, for now.
Now, I say for now because although I could delete the apps from my phone, I don't think I could delete my profile altogether. I feel ashamed saying this, but I've spent years building my social media and it shouldn't matter but I don't have that much strength right now. Maybe one day.
The first two minutes...
I have already unlocked my phone to check Twitter.
1 hour later...
I keep finding myself going to the location where my Twitter app used to be and wanting to tweet about my social media cleanse. Seriously, what is wrong with me? On top of that, I was sitting on my toilet watching Younger from my laptop, wanting to Snapchat it. Then I started thinking about what the FBI agent watching me through my webcam thinks of me. Is he or she proud of me or disgusted that I'm watching TV from my toilet?
5 hours later...
Well, I have made it to the end of the night. I binge watched Younger for the last five hours, in order to distract myself, which I'm not quite sure is healthy either. I decided to call it a night after seeing this message appear and disrupt my show for the hundredth time.
Seriously, college wifi sucks.
