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The days have been passing beautifully, though quite quickly, which is why I haven’t been able to post the past few days reflections. It has been eleven days since I deleted social media and in all honesty there are many hours that pass where I completely forget social media exists. I have discovered that you can indeed live without social media. 

Living without social media isn’t perfectly easy. I still feel the desire to check Instagram and other platforms whenever there is an extremely empty moment. While I don’t have a constant urge to pick up the phone, I’m beginning to feel a bit of a different sensation in regards to social media. I’m starting to feel slightly left out. 

“Perfection is an illusion that technology and modern culture cultivate at the expense of humanity.” This statement from the book “Together” by Vivek H. Murthy, MD, really punched me in the gut this morning when I read it. How true it is. We’ve all grown so used to seeing people’s lives as presented through social media and it truly distorts our view of others, because just like we are, they only present the best and most perfect moments. 

The longer away from social media I am, the less I want to ever get it back. Life is just easier without it, easier and far less stressful. The biggest question I am beginning to face is what on earth am I going to do when it’s time to come back to social media? 

I really don’t miss social media. My life is not made worse for not having it in my life, in fact it is probably made better by not having it always at my fingertips. I know less about the world around me, but more about what’s happening directly to me. I can pay attention directly to the events unfolding before my very eyes rather than always watching what is happening miles and miles away.