“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” –  Maya Angelou? (not sure)

Embarrassing confession here: I have been wasting time on social media. 

Why?

Curiosity? Killing time? 

I don’t know.

I know it is a waste of valuable time, and an exercise in nothingness. 

I guess what sparked my social media binging, it was, at first, a trip to the past.  A few people reached out on Valentine’s Day and on my birthday.   I call them ghosts from the past.  They resurface every now and then.  I don’t reply anymore.

I started looking into some of their social media. For the record, I don’t want these people in my life.  

Still,  I got curious and went snooping.  And I didn’t stop with them.  All of a sudden I am back to a place I was in the past, which is, the constant social media surfing.  I now know the latest about all celebrities and influencers.

What a waste of time! Who cares what dress an influencer is using, or where an old friend went on vacation?

I caught myself when I realized I was using this internet surfing, as a mental escape from the stresses of work.  Every second I felt overwhelmed, I found myself in someone’s social media.

This whole rambling on, is just to say that I am, once again, fully resolved to stop going down this path of destruction.  Destruction of a good mind and precious time.  I am resolved to stop the endless snooping and reading of stuff that has nothing to do with my life, and it doesn’t add anything to it.

I have so many projects to finish, at work and personal.  I am behind on my visits to your blogs. I haven’t caught up with any friends.  There is so much I could be doing instead.   I am embarrassed I am robbing myself of precious time.

And another thought on checking up the social media of old friends and exes, it keeps dragging me back to a past I don’t want to go back to.

Realization and accountability are the first steps.  I promise myself to do better.

Wishing you all a blessed weekend!

“I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself enough to not only make a promise to myself, but I love myself enough to keep that promise” ― Steve Maraboli

ps. please pardon typos and other error – too busy surfing 🙂