Amount of Screen Time: 45 minutes
Books Behind in Reading Challenge: 5
Okay, since as I mentioned in yesterday‘s blog post that Scribe’s Canvas is my accountability partner in this screen-less September endeavor, I have to be honest with you. I did end up breaking my rules yesterday (each post is about the previous day). I read an article, a very specific article, but it still breaks the rules. I realized even as I was reading it that I was breaking the rules, but I did it anyway. It was only a few minutes, but I want to be honest with myself and you, it’s hard to grow otherwise.
Also, I broke the rules later on when I was writing day 1’s blog post. I realized that I hadn’t thought far enough ahead, and didn’t have images for each of these reflection posts. Looking for a new image for each day’s post would count as breaking the rules since it often opens up an internet rabbit hole that I spend a long time exploring. So, ironically, in order to stop me from breaking the rules in the future, I had to use the internet; all while trying to write a blog post about how I’m doing a digital detox. I ended up making the image at the top of this post one for all thirty days at once but it did require a good amount of time.
All irony aside, I’ve been doing a lot of reflection on the emotions that have been brought to my attention by this challenge. I’ve realized that these emotions/thoughts have already always been there, but they’ve been drowned out by the internet and screens until now. Before this challenge, I would have claimed proudly that I’m not affected by social media comparison. However, only 2 days in and I’ve already learned that I was wrong. It does affect me; I was just ignoring it. It struck me hard last night, and I’ve been pondering it all day today. I want to be able to write more in-depth on this, but I’m going to have to save it until tomorrow; it’s getting late here on the left-coast, and I want to get this post up for all of you.
Thank you to all of you who stopped by yesterday and today! I really appreciate all of your support.
Until next time,
– Acire
Keep going Acire, I’m keen to know more and maybe give this a go myself. 🙂
Thanks for the support!
supporting your journey!
I’m am genuinely impressed. I’m not sure I’ve had a screen free week since about 1988.
Thank you!