Finding My Badass Self by Sherry Stanfa-Stanley

Author:Sherry Stanfa-Stanley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: 2017-11-06T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 31:

UNPLUGGED AND AMISH

While The 52/52 Project had begun to broaden my world, it simultaneously cemented me to an electronic one. As I planned and reported about events in my life, I grew even more obsessed with my three email accounts. I mainlined Facebook. My iPhone, offering instant notifications, never sat out of reach. And, still old-school enough to actually talk on the phone, I generally spent my drive time chatting, particularly on multiple daily conversations with my mother. Sure, I could ignore her calls and messages. But mothers only call again. And again. At least that’s what my two sons claimed.

A few months prior, during an attempted three-day break from my computer and cell phone, I instead found myself binging on Downton Abbey—an entire streamed season in a single weekend. I went from the electric frying pan straight into the fire. Yes, I was an electronic addict.

It was time to give unplugging from electronics my all.

So, I began one of the most personally daunting items on my 52/52 list: going unplugged for an entire week. Seven days of no phone, no radio, no television, no Internet, and no email. The only phone and email exceptions I chose to allow were communications for my day job and, if truly necessary, personal or family emergencies.

I comforted myself in the thought that I could still receive parcel and post. I prayed someone would send me a box of Little Debbie Nutty Bars, a twelve-pack of beer, and—several long letters.

How bad was my addiction? Before I unplugged, I scheduled a Facebook post to appear midway through my hiatus. Although I wouldn’t be able to read the comments for another week, I clung to the idea that this somehow kept me connected to my Internet alliances.

I had it bad. Real bad.

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