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I Experimented With My Social Life, and This is What I Found Out.
What I Learned After Cutting Out 90% of My Social Life
3 months ago, I was in a tempest. It felt as if my brain was high on caffeine through every hour of daylight. At times, I could feel it shivering from overstimulation.
Even the slightest crack in the day was patched by distractions- Endless Reels and ongoing texts.
I felt I had traded presence for notifications.
SO,
Precisely 2160 hours ago, I staged my rebellion.
The basis of my plan.
I realized something unsettling:
An average person spends only 1 to 3 hours truly disconnected from their phone.
On top of that, he also spends up to 5 hours a day socializing, 50 percent of which feels unfulfilling to most — (arguments, small talks, basically stuff that no one likes) and with that you’re bleeding 14 hours a week into the void.
So I tackled these, *personally perceived*, shortcomings of the societal functioning.
