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Happy Wednesday, readers!
So, I don’t have a Hollywood Hump Day Treat for you this week because of the holiday and then a 24 hour mini vaca to Great Wolf Lodge. Instead, I decided to explain to you all why I decided to delete the popular app, Timehope, and why it’s made my life better.
Like most of my friends, when I had the app, I would check it when I woke up in the morning. It was a part of my daily morning phone ritual – check my messages, e-mail, Twitter, Instagram, horoscope, and then Timehop.
I would open up the app to see a variety of different posts – tweets of Taylor Swift songs about boys whose names I don’t even remember, Facebook statuses about hanging out with friends I don’t really talk to anymore, Instagram posts of exciting adventures, and so much more.
Without realizing it, I was then setting my day up for either greatness or failure.
If in the past I was doing something exciting and now I was just lounging around on Netflix or at work, I would think that I should be doing something more with my life; that an average day was not good enough based on what had happened in the past.
If something sad or negative would pop up on my Timehop, I would then think about it for the entire day. I would start thinking about that moment or event, thinking about how it affected me today, etc. and not enjoy the day in front of me. A day that I would never get back would go wasted on a silly memory from Timehop.
Most of these posts were from years ago, when I was a completely different person. It wasn’t until I deleted the app that I realized this.
Sami from five years ago, just like most people from five years ago, is more mature, more confident, and has a different outlook on life compared to then.
Ultimately, I was living in the past and not the present.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a time machine. I can’t go back and change how something went and I can’t go into the future to see how one day will affect the next. What I do have is today, something I am lucky to have and most of us take for granted.
So, I deleted Timehop as a promise to myself to live each day in the present and not worry about what happened 365 days ago.
Do you still use Timehop? Comment below and let me know!
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