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Time to Detox

Posted on the 04 February 2013 by Gracem16 @TSITR_Gracie
Hey guys,
Have you ever had one of those days where you wake up, and feel like you really need to just change your life; to detox everything. Well, today I've made the decision to sign out of my Facebook and really change my life. It's time to shed that old skin and become a new person.
It's not that I don't like Facebook- well okay that's a bit of a bias view. I like Facebook as it allows me to talk to friends and to communicate what I feel, what I like to do etc. It keeps friends and family updated and all of that jazz. But when I trawl through my news feed do I really want to feel "let down" by seeing peoples problems, issues, dilemmas etc. The answer is no. I want to be happy with my identity and confidence and Facebook to me really shatters that illusion of what makes us happy. There will always be one friend or another that has the perfect boyfriend, lots of money, good grades. Do these things make us happy? Or do they leave us self doubting and questioning what we really are. Facebook fragments our identity under the skin. And it's taken me so long to realize this.
 I used to think that having 46 likes on a photo, having 500+ friends was a good thing. Was a thing that made me  happy, that made me feel like I had confidence and friends around me. So I tried to change this, by deleting people I didn't speak to, by trying to adapt my attitude. This made me feel okay, for a short time. But then did all of these 200 people really text me, want to meet up and hang out. The answer is no.
That's why I've taken it upon myself to completely detox, to remove the negative and find the positive. I can already say after about five hours I already feel so much better. I feel like I have a level head and that may seem like such an over dramatic thing to say but it's true. When you're not worrying about peoples dilemmas from what you read of Facebook; a burdens lifted off your shoulders.
So from today I will detox for 4 weeks (one month) and after this if I feel like my task has succeed then I won't use Facebook again (except maybe for rare occasions) and if I fail my task I know that I'll need to work of weaning myself of Facebook until I can succeed.
The main idea is to challenge myself, to see if I can really be happy without Facebook and to really see if these "friends" really are my "friends" to see if they text asking how I am, to see if they really want to catch-up. Or if life will just go about as normal with or without me.

I invite you to all try my four week detox and share your results with me.
Try it and see.
Love,
TSITR

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