30/01/2025
My brain didn’t know what to do at first… but then something surprising happened.
I quit social media for the past six days.
At first, my brain freaked out.
For the first 24 hours, my hands kept reaching for my phone out of habit. I wasn’t even thinking about it—just instinctively searching for those apps, looking for that quick dopamine hit.
But by day three or four, something shifted.
I stopped looking. I stopped wondering what I was missing. And instead, I started noticing something else.
I was actually present.
Suddenly, I realized how little free time I really have—and how much of it I’d been wasting, lost in endless scrolling. And when I looked around, I saw just how many people were glued to their screens, trapped in the same cycle.
As someone with ADHD, this experiment was eye-opening. The separation from social media gave my brain a break I didn’t even know it needed.
It reminded me of something Ramit Sethi says about money: “Life happens outside the spreadsheet.”
The same applies to social media.
Post what you need to post. Get your updates. Then move on.
Because life isn’t happening inside those apps. It’s happening out here.
And I don’t want to miss it
