Deleting Social Media Is the Most Egoistic Thing You Can Do - In the Best Way
We’re probably all guilty of it - spending way too much time on social media. But if we're speaking the absolute truth, it’s more likely that we are giving away our precious time and energy to social media.
I’m definitely a sucker for it. I don’t want to blame the ADHD side of me, but it sure doesn’t help! Then again, social media is literally designed this way. It’s reeeeally hard to not get sucked into the vortex.
That is why I usually just keep it deleted from my phone. Now, there is an important detail here - it's deleted, not quitted. We’re not living in a cave, and there are absolutely good sides to it. I love sharing my photos on there (you know, like in the real “good old times”). But these days, I do it from my computer.
Did you know that on the desktop version, Instagram actually shows you the content of people you actually follow first? Aka, you only see the things you’re genuinely interested in - the reasons you went there in the first place. On your phone, however, the algorithm feeds you endless other things until you completely forget why you opened the app in the first place.
You Focus On Yourself
When I deleted social media from my phone, something unexpected happened - I got egoistic. Let’s be real for a second: being on social media constantly forces you to focus on the lives of others. On the outside.
But as soon as you eliminate that digital noise from your life - guess what? You naturally start to focus on yourself.
You Do Your Own Thing
And you do it without constantly comparing yourself to others. You stop diluting your own opinions and muffling your own intuition - which is actually your most powerful asset. Did you know that the people who truly "made it" usually did it entirely their own way? But if you spend your day observing what other people do - or better said, observing their highlight reels - you will never find your own path. You will only ever see theirs.
You Rediscover Your Interests
Without giving away your time and energy, you suddenly have a lot more headspace to dedicate to something you actually care about - just for yourself (yup, pure egoistic joy).
The funny thing is, you might first have to figure out what that even is. With social media, you have likely been influenced so heavily that you don’t even know what is your genuine interest versus what you've just seen someone else do. So, take your time. Allow yourself to be bored. Boredom is honestly the best way to find your sparks again.
You Build Your New Life Your Way
And when you find those sparks again, you naturally start acting on them. Why? Because you aren't drowning them out in the noise of the exterior world. When you start acting on your own desires, your life starts to grow, to evolve, and to become the version you’ve always wanted. The version you likely forgot about along the way. But now you’re back. Listening. And acting.
So to sum it up: Deleting social media allows you to be egoistic. It lets you start focusing on yourself again.
It lets you rediscover your real interests, do things your way, and by doing so, build a life you actually, truly want. And in the end, isn't that what we all desire? To live a life we actually want? A life we genuinely burn for?
So, from time to time, you just have to be a little egoistic.
