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I understand posting this on tumblr makes no sense, but if this partially hits one person it’s good enough…

Curing my social media addiction was the best think I ever did, in every single way possible. Not just tumblr.com, I have no accounts. No Twitter, no Instagram, TikTok, whatever the fuck. Can’t delete this one tho because it feels like killing my own child. I also only watch one YouTube video a week and honestly sometimes even that doesn’t feels interesting. I don’t really feel like playing anything either.

You don’t have to be so radical, just get to the point where you control your usage without feeling an agony if you don’t. If you never felt like this I’m so envy, but this has been my experience. I hope it half helps someone.

My life has simply skyrocketed. If you believe you are also addicted to social media really think about these:

Your memory will get insanely good. You will remember everything simply because you won’t be bombarding your head with 257346833 images, words, thoughts, you will forget.

You ware going to get SO MUCH free time. you are going to get more time to THINK, and you have no idea of what that really does. Everything will heal faster. Crazily fast actually (compared to months or years), and hurt a lot less.

You are going to get your creativity back and your curiosity you might have left on the way. No random impulses, you control your own life. Because you have time to think you will choose what’s the best thing to do next instead of jumping into your first impulse or agony.

Nothing will seem boring. This one is crazy but it’s the most true. Also the most important by far. Things won’t look hard or too boring to do because you are not a Las Vegas old man pressing a button 756434523 times. Aka you can make your self do whatever you want, and the struggle will be minimum. You can focus for hours on the most long term reward and not notice the time going by. Whatever struggle you have to go through to stop wanting to be online at every free second you is 100% worth it, I absolutely promise. As you get out you will notice 99% of the things you see are irrelevant. What’s actually relevant will find its way to you, don’t worry. It always does.

Social media addiction is normalized as if losing all of this is normal but at this point I really do not believe it is. I’m happy to be someone else from who I was just 5 months ago. And for the first time in my life I feel like I know who I am and where I want to get. Stay cool 🩷

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Hot Fuzz (2007) dir. Edgar Wright

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An American in Paris (1951) directed by Vincente Minnelli

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The Red Shoes (1948) dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

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“I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens, the universe, worlds beyond number. (…) And in that moment I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite.”

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) dir. Jack Arnold

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Le notti di Cabiria (Nights of Cabiria) 1957 dir. Federico Fellini

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Night of the Living Dead (1968) dir. George A. Romero

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In another world.

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The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) dir. Roger Corman

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“What have you been doing?” “Waiting for you.”

Like Crazy - dir. Drake Doremus (2011)

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“In the Spring I spent much time amongst the icebergs with my cameras. One berg had a wonderful cavern, which I christened ‘Aladdin’s Cave’.”

The Great White Silence (1924) dir. Herbert Ponting

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Phantom Thread (2017) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

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Նռան գույնը (Цвет граната, The Color of Pomegranates), 1969, Sergei Parajanov

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It’s when you know there’s is something you must do, and you also know, beyond any doubt, that it’s impossible for you to do those things. How did you escape? I didn’t exactly escape.

Porto (2016) dir. Gabe Klinger