Recently, if you follow me on social media you'd see that i've decided to take a break from the social phenomenon of mindlessly scrolling through pictures and messages we barley look at to just half ass double click to heart or send snapchats just because it was the thing to do. It's been a stellar couple of days now and I still find myself unlocking my phone trying to find the app or figure out why I unlocked it in the first place with nothing needing to be done. I'd say I do this at least several times in the hour, which ummm.. is kinda gross to say the least! Think about it if I still had all those social apps on my phone every time I opened my phone was for no reason at all other than to zombie check my account and thats SEVERAL times an HOUR. All that time wasted on seeing what someone else is doing with their life.
Don't get me wrong here either social media has become such an AMAZING tool for business' to get their name out there and be able to generate an entire list of clientele from instagram solely-- it's just as for the rest of us.. it's not doing shit for us but spending money on shit we don't need and taking our time away from living life more grand.
For me at least I didn't want to be a victim to social media anymore , I didn't want it taking over my life completely. I wanted to stop fussing over "I have to get a cute picture to post" because of what ever reason my 2k followers absolutely needed to see. Instead of me living my best life I was creating snapshots of moments to "look like my best life" was being fulfilled. When it wasn't.
I will say that there was a time that I was using my platform to empower men and women to try an live as their most authentic self; but as nobody's perfect I fell off my seat and into the pool of the mindless. The crazy thing is I don't even know when this fall off happened. It just did and I wasn't posting for the same reasons anymore and It. Was. Draining. Me.
I tried to go back to my old ways before deciding to unplug completely but something didn't feel quite right. Trying to revert back just like that wasn't what I needed. I needed to do some internal searching before I could give my followers something to look forward to again. I needed to do the grand digging of finding me again; and what better way to start than by completely flying off the radar.
Hold the phone, I know what you're thinking.. "but Peach, this blog doesn't make you go off the radar cOmplETelY." yes yes, I know.
Let me explain, one of my bucket list items was to start a blog, only before I had all the wrong intentions behind starting it like making money, creating a store for my personal training company.. to make money, exedra, exedra, of course I still want to help others and have a place easier for them to see what I can offer only now its not JUST about that. I've created this blog for the sole benefactor of being able to finally make a space for my writing. Not caring who finds it, if anyone finds it or if anyone reads it. It's just for me, myself, a cheap bottle of wine and all the sap writing my 21 year old mind can type.
This right now for me is my sacred place. A space I'm allowed to be me without all the noise of our vein filled world.
I want to replace the salad photos, the photoshopped models, the "perfect couples, the millionaire 17-year old entrepreneurs, for pizza at 2am, talks with strangers because they had a good vibe, traveling country side on mission trips for me and NOT "for the gram," focusing on my health because I wanna feel good and not because I want my ass to look like Kim K's.
I want the raw side of life, I want to take away the vanity of living and give myself the inner peace I needed so badly.
I want to fall in love with life again, fall in love with sights, learn more lessons, find out more about my wife, take my dog out more, jump off cliffs. I want to thrive in my life unplugged. I'm taking back my "your daily average screen time is 6h 17m." That's 2,252h and 5 minutes toward seeing more life.
Here's to life unplugged. Cheers
peach xx