This day and age it is uncommon for you not to have a smartphone with 4G wireless boosts and ten thousand different appliances that connect to the ever so wonderful wireless unit. Whenever I am uncomfortable or in an awkward situation I find myself looking at my phone, hoping that someone will text me or that Facebook will give me something that could fill that void that I feel when I am uncomfortable or feeling awkward. I find that I could relate to Lamott when this happens to me. Lamott writes, "I felt like I found the secret to life." (222) I feel the same way when I could successfully avoid the awkward eye contact in half empty elevator. As well when I find myself encountered with a social situation I am allowed to look at my phone, I feel that I have found the secret that I have been missing.
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You can't control the nagging that you feel every time you are in a situation that makes you uncomfortable or even one that makes you want to go back to the crutch. The crutch that you have been working so hard to dissolve into the blackness. Just as the specialist that helped Lamott get through her eating disorder by asking, "first to notice when I was hungry, and then -this blew my mind- to feed myself." (225) She then figured out the even though she might want the cheetos that doesn't make her a bad person. She learns that she doesn't need to throw them out or wet them. (225) She learned that its ok to eat what she wants when she is hungry. The same can be applied to those who need social media to be the crutch that one might need to use in social situations where one might feel uncomfortable and/or
You can't control the nagging that you feel every time you are in a situation that makes you uncomfortable or even one that makes you want to go back to the crutch. The crutch that you have been working so hard to dissolve into the blackness. Just as the specialist that helped Lamott get through her eating disorder by asking, "first to notice when I was hungry, and then -this blew my mind- to feed myself." (225) She then figured out the even though she might want the cheetos that doesn't make her a bad person. She learns that she doesn't need to throw them out or wet them. (225) She learned that its ok to eat what she wants when she is hungry. The same can be applied to those who need social media to be the crutch that one might need to use in social situations where one might feel uncomfortable and/or