I bet you heard the saying "You don't know what you get til it's gone" or at the very least heard it from Joni Mitchell song 'Big Yellow Taxi'. Well for me it's quite the opposite. Days ago I told you that I temporarily deactivate my Facebook account in lieu of my conscience of exam urgency. I have to re-activate my FB so that I can update my fellow friends about MBBS activities, one of the collateral effect of being questionable batch leader as I am. And that is it. I got myself a brief moment of clarity that I don't miss anything about FB, I am just not that passionate to it anymore. Whether I was overwhelmed with the anticipation to Google+ or pre-occupied with all the least important stuff around? I can't put a finger on it.
It is like finally get a hold of exact correction index in your spectacles. It's like humming similar tune with Bob Marley's 'I Can See Clearly Now'. Facebook is not that vital in my function. It is not indispensable. I was closing the floodgate of unnecessary updates of other people's life whilesaving others from mine. Sure it is not as easy as quitting tar and nicotine, but I cold-turkey-ed it.
But I got blog and Twitter, kinda like skipping cigarettes for nicotine patch. But once in a while, you still get the urge -I must say- to share and over share. But you'll get by. Still I get to share stuff in my blog, the only different is others are not forced to read it, totally optional.
Still need to keep FB open though for MBBS page updates. If it weren't for that, I am totally out.
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