After over a week of living without Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat I am actually surprised by the impact it made in my life. I can tell from myself that I am in a better mood. And I don't have the constant need of checking what my "friends" are doing. I simply don't care, and not in a bad way. Because I love to listen to all of my friends what they are doing, when they want to tell me. But I care more about what I am doing right now and with my life. It took a lot to set my happiness first. Of course I am not in the best mood 24/7 but the majority of the time.
But on the other hand it was also really hard when I was bored. I didn't know what to do. Usually when I am on the train I just check various timelines, and this led me to thinking again if I should check on Facebook or Instagram. However I started to taking a lot of books with me to wherever I go and realized I have lots of time to read on the Bus and the train. I am really glad I made this change in my life and I hope it will be as easy this next 3 weeks. And I hope I can take this experience with me. I recommend every single person to think about how much time we spend on social media! And social media is not a bad thing, but how much time we actually waste by looking at unnecessary stuff. And how we could spend that time by doing something meaningful!
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"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present." I want to go on a plane. And don't want to tell anyone or bring my phone. I wanna go somewhere i don't know the roads like the palm of my hand. And every road has his own new story to tell me. Because I walk the same roads day in and day out, take the same bus and I cease to see. We walk in our dreams and train our muscles to work without giving thought. But I wanna walk where I have never walked before and notice it. And don't want to try to get anything of it or make use of it, because I can't. And that's the point. Just walk, and sit down if you like. And be. Just be whatever you are with whatever you have. And realize that this is enough to be happy.
After 3 stressful weeks of rearranging my and bestfriend and I finally managed to spend a day together. We started the day of with a pretty good breakfast at a local confectionery, which is famous for their brunches. If you need to get your head off work and school or whatever is bugging you, what is better than spending the day at a thermal bath? Saddly you weren't allowed to take any pictures but the view from the roof top pool was amazing. If you're ever in Zurich make sure to check it out.
I have been thinking a long time about this. I was never sure if I could make it. But I made this decision about a week ago and made plans about how to implement this whole cleansing procedure.
I will still be posting blog posts once in a while but I won't be using Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat for 5 weeks. How I came to this decision? I myself think social media has a bad influences on us all. It makes us compete with each other and compare our lives. We don't even enjoy the here and now. So much time gets wasted being on all different kinds of social media. I wanna see if I actually feel better after 5 weeks and if i can go on with even a longer time with no social media. Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today? I couldn't wait to go back to Switzerland when I was in America, but now all I wanna do is redo my exchange year. I miss so many people. And the worst part is having not only American friends but also best friends living all over the world. And you just want to talk to them but it's really not the same to text or call a person, when you saw them everyday for a year. You just went to school and could tell each other everything. For a long time I thought I had a bad experience, but how can an experience be bad at all? With two great host families supporting me no matter what. And knowing that whenever you get back you will always have someone waiting for you. Can't thank the people enough who where truly a blessing to me in such a short time. But not only do I miss my friends and family but also did I never thought I could miss my boyfriend this much. We didn't get to know each other shortly before I had to leave, so we didn't have much time with each other. But he was also the most important person, during probably my hardest time. So after nearly 9 months of a long distance relationship I really just want to go back to Alabama.
"Play it cool boy, real cool." 1. TO SINK INTO SELF-PITYIf you keep asking why me, you'll never get to the ground of it. Self pity makes a huge deal about some bad luck. Instead of an ease it puts everything in negativity. And apart of that it annoys all the people around you. 2. ALWAYS LISTEN TO OTHERUsually no one knows us as good as ourselves. So does it make sense to make decisions about outfits, drinks or whatever based on what other people tell us to. Rather ask: What do I like? What make ME happy? What is good forMe? Even when the answer might be something else, than the rest of the world would have given you. 3. TO LIVE IN THE PAST Memories are nice and a little bit of nostalgia isn't bad with a glass of red wine in the evening. But who lives in the past puts more weight in the past than the present, and misses instant. And doesn't realize how beautiful it is right now, and might be something we would like to look back to later. 4. TO SEE THE FUTURE AS A RESCUERRight now everything stinks - but oh well, someday everything is going to get better or not? Dreams about the future are nice and motivating or even exciting. But if we always hope for even better and bigger, we miss - once again - the present. The only time, we can actually bring in shape. 5. TO COMPARE YOURSELF WITH OTHERS There are thousands of reason to envy other people about what they might have. Maybe the pretty body of your best friend even though she is eating all the time. Or even the pretty awesome career of the person you met last weekend. But the good thing is: It has abosultely nothing to do with yourself. Rather focus on your strengths and what you love to do. 6. TO ALWAYS PUT YOURSELF BACK IN THE LINE Between the girlfriend, the shoulder-to-cry-on, the daughter, party crasher, athlete and being a work ace the most important things gets forgotten: YOURSELF. If you're regularly alone, listen to your inner you and do exactely what feels right, is collecting energy and balanced and therefore ready again to achive all the duties. 7. TO ALWAYS DEPEND ON OTHERS You have a boyfriend? Great. And in addition a best friend? Even better. But your luck or bad luck isn't depending on either one of them or anything else. It is is important that we learn to spend time by ourselves but still have blast and also to be strong and independent.
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