The Importance Of Disconnecting Myself

For the past 7 days I have been disconnecting myself from much of the internet. It’s not my first time doing it but it is the first time in over 7 years. It wasn't a total disconnection but I mainly used Twitter to stay informed but limited myself to only opening it a few times per day and used the rest of the internet for very specific queries like the lyrics to a song. I also didn’t give up email or IM but tried to limit my interactions as much as possible. The purpose of doing this was to see how my overall mood would improve by filling my extra time with other things mainly more passive forms of entertainment and to take more time trying to understand myself. I spend most of my time reading, I finally finished Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage which I started about a year ago and started digging into Great North Road because I'm a glutton for Peter F. Hamilton's thousand page epics. The rest of the time was split between playing games, watching TV, and meditating. …show more content…
Its quite sad that the only times I went through long stretches of being disconnected was because of work, watching a movie in a theater, or sleep. I became addicted to information, like the woman in the picture it felt like so much of my very existence was wrapped in ethernet cable. I was bound to the net and a desire to remain as connected as possible. But having my mind filled with so much clutter ultimately lead me to a point where I lost the ability to focus on anything. I’ve never been good with focusing but the internet definitely served as my biggest