outside of screens

Comic Blog 3

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The solution to social media and information addiction is not to delete it, not to put timers, not to block your apps, not to stop making friends online, it is quite simple - design your life out of it to be fun and make those aspects more important.

That phone is the size of your hand, and it is designed to get you addicted and may seem that you cannot control the usage but just the subtle mindset shift to “I can actually control it” is what cuts the rope that is pulling you down that ocean. Ocean is good when you’re on the boat or surfing, not when you’re drowning. So, get out and get a boat and control how far in the ocean you go. Control when you go and in how much time you want to come back to the shore.

It is actually that simple. We just like convenient dopamine and don’t want to work for it, but the more the delay in that release, the better the feeling.

I was recently trying to completely deprive myself of social media, only to come back and get addicted again. I ran around in circles like this for years, till my therapist told me, “Self-control and deprivation aren’t the same”

You may have heard all this before in some youtube videos, instagram posts, tweets or blogs, but the reason everyone tells you the same thing is because it is the only thing there. This is what I am battling through and trying to change right now, make my offline life more exciting, fun and engaging and take control of where my attention goes.

P.S - Tried a new style, let me know what you think!!

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P.P.S - I don’t try styles, I don’t even have one, so every time I draw it’s different from the previous one xD.
Did you notice I forgot to draw specs in the last frame? 10 TCA points if you did.

I felt like sharing a song this time, so take this -

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