“Never hold yourself back from trying something new just because you’re afraid you won’t be good enough. You’ll never get the opportunity to do your best work if you’re not willing to first do your worst and then let yourself learn and grow.” ~Lori Deschene “I’m sorry, what did you say?” I asked my mother for the third time during our lunch together.
She sighed, put down her fork, and said something that still haunts me: “I’ve gotten used to competing with your phone for your attention.” I looked down at my phone, Instagram still glowing on the screen, and saw myself through her eyes: a twenty-nine-year-old man more invested in strangers’ lives than his own mother’s stories.
I’m not alone in this struggle. Studies show the average person spends two and a half hours daily on social media, with 210 million people worldwide believed to suffer from social media addiction.
But statistics didn’t matter to me until I saw how my own addiction was unraveling the fabric of my life. How My Freelance Dreams Almost Died in My Social Media Feed My freelance business was crumbling, one scroll at a time.