Re-activating Instagram after an extended break
All through my life I have indulged myself in problem-solving. In elementary school I would ask for extra homework. In middle school I would write up essays about my favorite scientists of the past. In highschool, I watched slightly right wing youtubers.
One day, coming home from highschool, I started to do homework like I would do in the past. Instead of doing it, I decided to go on my new iPod. This was the first time in my life I noticed that I reached for a device rather than doing what I wanted. This would become the undercurrent for the rest of my life.
Recently, for the first time in probably 7 years, I took an extended break from Instagram. I noticed no discernible difference in my life or quality of life. Nor my output of work. This lasted about 5 months.
I returned recently and though I felt my life was the same and that I was the same person, it no longer felt like a place that I belonged. This is a pretentious statement. Not that I was above the members of the Instagram population but that I simply did not belong. I assume this is what an alcoholic thinks when they return to a club for the first time in a long time. Everyone around me was drunk and I was far too sober to watch more videos of Russia-Ukraine and innocent people being murdered.
I recommend leaving Instagram. I am still addicted to TikTok.