Every once and again I'm having a little detox from social media, but haven't had one in a really long time and I realised it's really necessary - I felt completely drained of all creativity and inspiration and spending countless hours on instagram only made it worse to be honest. I would doubt in everything I was about to post, every single photo without exception. Seeing all the filters, perfect faces and sugar-coated realities didn't help too because I was looking for something raw, something genuine and true and for some reason couldn't find that much of it anymore. I found myself in this vicious circle of trying to create yet not feeling any of it, so that was already a huge red flag, but I ignored it because it's social media, right? It is what it is, we all know that.
But sometime last week, feeling uninspired turned into feeling absolutely stressed and anxious whenever I entered the app, and resulting in me always feeling less than.
See, I'm aware of the fact that I spend a huge amount of time on social media daily. But only when I set my screen time for instagram for 1h daily (still haven't go past that!) did I realize how often I go on this app almost automatically. It actually was quite a scary realisation and only proved me right that spending as much time off as possible was the best thing to do. I left the one hour window for posting and quickly checking the stories, but I might narrow it down in a few days.
I also really want to focus on other things you know, the ones that will be a creative outlet for me or ones that will make me feel truly happy - film photography, going back to vlogging and improving editing skills, taking photos just because, moving more and reading.
So far so good, I'm curious how it'll go.
x,
Darka
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