You’ve got one, haven’t you? That pesky habit that drains you of all of your energy and time. Every time you partake in you bad habit, you feel an immense amount of guilt yet you can’t stop doing it. It may be biting your nails or procrastination. Something that can only leave a negative impact on you life. Well, as most people my age, my bad habit is technology. It’s pretty much taken over my life.
Don’t get me wrong, I love and appreciate technology. It’s revolutionised our future dramatically, creating an efficient way to share information and knowledge, advance medical practices, help those in need and be the reason you’re reading this at this very moment.
But, as all good things, there is a dark side to technology, especially social media. It’s addicting. Everything to do with is was created for the specific purpose of being so addictive, that you can’t imagine life without it. So addicting that you spend hours of your day, aimlessly scrolling, just waiting for a notification to pop up and give you that dopamine boost. So addictive that you begin to lose yourself.
Not only was I literally watching my life waste away, there were too many negative repercussions for me to allow for this ‘habit’ to continue. I was beginning to be unfocused as my brain was not receiving the stimulation boost it usually does with social media. I would subconsciously reach into my pocket, unlock my phone and press the instagram icon without actually being aware of what I was doing. I would get stressed out because I knew that I was just wasting more and more of my life, watching the time tick by, whilst sitting back and being brainwashed and dumbed down by an endless stream of likes and comments.
So I stopped. I deleted the app and that lifestyle. I replaced Instagram with reading and Snapchat with being in the moment. Because honestly, does anyone really care about the meal I just had for me to be posting it on my story? Does anyone want to see yet another selfie of me pouting? Not at all. And neither did I.
I encourage you. Give up the habit. It may not be that simple, but what is? Life’s too short to snap 50 pics of your açai bowl. Just eat the damn thing.
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