30 days without Instagram

Instagram. 

I’m sure a social network that most youths all over the world know and use. As a youth, I have one too. But for me, my instagram is not as important as Facebook and Twitter as I gain a lot more informations through these two social networks compared to instagram. So one day, 5th October to be exact, I challenge myself not to browse the instagram for 30 days. 

I decided to know how capable I am to discipline myself. I find it interesting to challenge myself and succeed. I live alone. So when I’m bored, I tend to browse instagram which now that I don’t browse it, I find myself enjoying my real hobbies which are reading, exercising and few others that surely bring more advantages than sitting, browsing and commenting others’ photos. It’s not wrong, neither it’s wasting time especially when you follow informative pages which is not my case. 

I tend to judge people based on their photos and captions which is improper. Though I try not to do it because I try not to do something I dislike to others. But again, we are humans who are far from being perfect. We are not angels. 

As I’m writing this, it’s been 26 days and I did find peace for not browsing instagram. I started to realise that I achieve more than I intended after challenging myself. I got the joy of doing old hobbies and appreciating what’s around me rather than staring at photos for quite a time. 

It may sound nonsense, but I learn that how am I going to sacrifice something bigger in the future if I can’t sacrifice someting that is not that important. 

To achieve something,

We sacrifice something 

To achieve something bigger

We sacrifice something bigger

It always works that way. 

Life is all about sacrifices. 

After these 30 days, hopefully, I’ll be back to Instagram as a less judgmental and a more positive me. Well I did miss looking at photos but not that severe. 

As I said, I did this just for fun, to challenge myself. This time it’s my own life and thinking that I explore and stalk instead of others’. That’s my way and I did it my way.

Well now my father’s favourite song, My Way is ringing in my head. After reading this, maybe you can go and listen to it. It’s a good song. 

P/s : One's life is not all that you see on Instagram and your life is not all that you have to potray on Instagram. The world is bigger than just a social network. 

MfG, 

Die Schriftstellerin