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Unplugged: Letting My Thoughts Breathe

Some say that the first step toward solving a problem is to admit that the problem exists. So here it goes: I have this problem. The second step for me is to label exactly what it is, and that's been the hard part. I don't know if it's a sense of emptiness or boredom, whether I'm missing something or I have too much of it, or if it's something that needs to be changed or just managed. What I do know is that I haven't really felt...fulfilled. At the core of me, I am craving something more, beyond the monotony and beyond the mental clutter of social media. With the world at my fingertips, I somehow insist on subjecting myself daily to the limited scope of my email messages, text messages, and FB newsfeed. Subconsciously looking for something new, but ending up with a bunch of the same old things. My mind is bombarded with people's random thoughts over and over again in different forms. I can almost feel my mind becoming less creative just typing about it....