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OCD, personal, psychology

Why I Quit Instagram 📷

It’s Thanksgiving 2020. I’m chilling at my in-laws house for a few days while I’m off work. Here I spend 99% of my time on a sofa that I seem to be magnetically attracted to. This is the place and time where checking my Instagram doesn’t feel like a crime. The posts are the same as usual. Some wow me. Some fill me with envy. Some fill me with wanderlust. Some annoy me. Some drive me crazy. But today they hit different.

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Have the Courage to be 10% Different

I’m Michael and I’ve found some time in between podcasts, YouTube and streaming content (plus my own incessant thoughts) to stop and write this. I’m in the eye of the storm of content amidst the choppy seas of influence. There are so many things going in my ears and out the other side that its hard to tell what’s my inner monologue and what’s not. If I’m compelled with courage, I might throw on some background music to help me focus — some noise to drown out the noise.

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What Shoes Teach Us About Life

The one thing that has been of great significance to me consists of a set of four things. Well, actually four pairs of the same thing. They are my four pairs of shoes: tan Sketchers, green Nikes, black Bostonians, and a pair of Scooby-Doo slippers. Collectively, they signify to me the four components of a well-rounded, fulfilling life. One represents the mundane routines of life. Another represents me developing my own unique persona, and the last two represent the polar opposites of work and play.