My life in its current form is fine. But there are SO many things about it that I really don’t find sustainable. I’m almost 30 and I’ve learned so much about myself and what I want. But it’s really hard to put those things into action, because of all the real world things that get…
Tag: social media
Chronically Online
My grandparents are in their 90s and they’ve never used the internet or a smartphone. They just simply chose not to, even though they’ve had the past like 20 years to do so. It must have been so peaceful to live in a time without the internet or even the amount of news we see…
Forgetting Not Forgiving
The phrase goes: forgive and forget. Stop feeling the resent you feel towards someone and put it in the back of your mind. That person's mistake that caused you anger or hurt is gone forever and you move on with your life. I've never really been one to forgive because a lot of people ask…
Resisting The Urge To Look Cool
In my ongoing journey to feel less attached to social media, I put all my social media sites in a new app folder on my phone and hid them from view this past weekend. Because I work in social media, it is really really hard to disconnect after hours. And it’s just been more difficult…
The Time Has Arrived
For years I’ve thought to myself, I wonder when I’ll get burnt out on social media. I work in social, this blog and social are a passion project, and then I also maintain it for family and friends. It’s a lot, I’ve had over 20 accounts linked to my phone at one time. I didn’t…
Social Media Pressures
I love social media, I've loved it ever since I get tweets as texts to my flip phone and built up my Myspace profile to 4,000 friends. I naturally became invested in becoming an Instagram influencer and blogger and I love making content and connecting with people. I work in communications. Social media is basically…
It’s Okay To Be An Attention Seeker
Self destructive behaviors are hard to avoid. You could be self centered, a bad listener, a serial dater, a player, a flirt - just someone who is constantly making things worse for themselves and for others. Social media makes it very easy for us to become jealous of others. We are constantly exposed to everyone…
Catch Up With Me On Social Media!
I haven’t plugged my social media channels in a while and there have been some new faces around here lately so... If you’re keeping up with all my blog posts, find me on facebook. If you want to see all of my life complaints, follow me on Twitter. And if you want to see all…
January Recap
We are somehow a whole month into the New Year. A lot has changed and a lot hasn't, but I still have more hope for 2021 than I did for 2020. Here's a recap of my month! Favorite show: Bridgerton Favorite memory: We spent a weekend down the shore and it was a much needed break…