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THE ANTI-SOCIAL CHALLENGE

I've come to realize Facebook and Discord and everything is just always full of drama... So I decided to do the "Anti-Social Challenge" and well it was interesting. (WARNING: It might be lengthy.)

That's what he said XD

01.19.2021:
Today I started on my journey to avoid all social media for two weeks and we'll it was interesting. There was a huge fight between my wife and I, I almost did something really dumb, and I woke up hungover since my birthday was yesterday. I've had better days, but I'm not gonna lie, I have had way worse days than today. On to the purpose of this. 
I spend a lot of time on my phone. Most of the time is spent on social media, so I'm changing that. I'm also doing this because I'm tired of the drama. Looking at the statistics from my phone, I open Facebook a whopping 95 times a day on average, that is a lot. Today while trying to fight it, I opened Facebook 12 times. Looks like I still need some work, but luckily I found a way to do it.

There is a "Digital Wellbeing" section in the settings of your phone that allows you to set up time limits for certain apps or to simply make it where you can only access specific apps by using the "Focus Mode" setting. Once you have the setting on, if you try to click an app that you didn't mark as allowed it will tell you "Stay Focused" and keep the app closed. 
I have to go to sleep now because I have a funeral to attend in the morning, but I will add an update to this tomorrow. Blessed Be!


01.20.21:
It's currently two minutes till noon and we just left my grandmother's funeral. It's hard. I had a picture of me and her from when I was six that I put in her casket, I instantly broke down a bit. I'm at my parents now about to get some food so I'll have an update later. 


01.21.21:
Last night my wife and I got into a huge argument and divorce was threatened. We eventually calmed down and made up, but it was still pretty bad. I slept till almost 1pm. Today though, we're throwing money into the bank and getting a storage unit so we can get rid of some of the access stuff we have.
On the topic of the storage unit though I found a small 32GB flash drive outside on the ground in front of the storage unit. I was excited but nervous at the same time because what if it had a virus or something. I took it home so I could get a better look at it. I took a pair of strong tweezers and unbent the metal part on the front of the drive, then I took it out of the cover it was in and cleaned that off with a qtip. Then it was time to plug it in. 
I plugged it in and nothing happened...
This was a disappointment at first, but then it popped up saying a drive was detected. I go to open it and it automatically got an I/O Device Error. It's something I should've seen coming which I did see it as an possible outcome since it did rain and snow. So I found nothing cool or creepy from the loss flash drive, but it is what it is.
Today while my wife is at work I'm gonna do something productive and clean. Something I usually never get done due to the baby throwing a huge fit & me scrolling through social media so much out of boredom.
01.22.21:


"I heard a knock upon my door the other day!" Sorry Ronnie Radky kicked in. I heard a knock today to find out my neighbor left a bunch off food outside my door. 
(4:52pm) Sometimes I hate how stupid people are. I just paid sixty-sum dollars for a storage unit to where I wouldn't have to pay for anything till the first of March. I went to the store, I bought a padlock and a light for working at nights, and I went off towards the unit. To my surprise there was a new padlock on there that wasn't there two days ago. 
Turns out the person who rented me the unit forgot to check to see if someone else fucking had it already. So when I explained there was a lock on there I was told, "Looke like someone beat you to it." This pissed me off, but I kept my cool. She had me drive around and see if I could find a unit without a lock, there wasn't one. So she said across town there was one opening up either today or tomorrow. So they still have my money, I have no unit, and now I'm waiting to see if they call me tomorrow. I need a drink...


01.23.21:
Today my sister, wife, and I are doing a farewell ritual for passed loved ones.
(7:53 pm)
We did one for five separate people. Our great grandmother that just recently passed, our cousin Devin who took his life a few months back, my brothers daughter that passed, my wife's grandpa, and my friend Dale.. They all hit really hard, but Devin really got me. I miss them all alot. I do feel a bit better though now. 
I finally got the storage unit today too. The previous renter had a treadmill they just left so I'm just gonna test that out sometime soon. 


01.24.21:
It's 12:23 am and the baby wouldn't sleep so now I'm stuck watching fuckin cocomellon. Save me!
I feel shitty. Slept till 1 pm.


01.25.21:
Today I head off to Pekin, Illinois to walmart. Come to think about it though Canton walmart has the same things we need and it's a shorter distance from our house. It's all up to my wife though. She thinks she's always right, but I don't agree. 
I found a song that no matter what mood I'm in, it helps make me feel better. It fills me full of good vibes every time I hear it. The song is Healing by In Love With A Ghost. Here's a link to it:
https://youtu.be/QfSqcvWBApc


01.30.21:
I decided to come back a few days early, but I just wanna state how this actually kinda helped me. Even though I did miss the conversations on discord and I may have had some rough patches, but oh well. To be honest though, I thought this little experiment would help with my depression, but I was wrong. Somehow it has gotten worse. I'm at the point where I don't think social media had anything to do with it, it's just me. There is just something wrong with me.
It'll get better though. Eventually... Yesterday wasn't the best, but we're going to figure it out, my wife and I always do. Cheers to a brighter tomorrow, thanks for reading this. Try to stay bright everyone.


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