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 For the past few days I have been attempting to write and have left it blank, I open my blog think of what to write about and open my phone and start scrolling some social media pages. It has become a pattern, a toxic one at that.  I finally found something that pushed me to write, so I found this quote  that said "write everyday, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good or as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later" - Jane Smiley. This was on a page called writing about writing. 

Actually it has been very difficult to open Facebook for the past few days, it has been extremely disturbing and still I found myself not being able to break out of it. few months back I wasn't opening it at all, for a few months I had even deleted it from my phone, I am beginning to wonder if I should do that again, because it is only filling me p with negativity. I have almost reached a point where I wake up and and I open Facebook, see something disturbing and try to go back to sleep, wake up again, scroll some more and start playing some random game on my phone to be able to distract myself from something I probably saw on FB so that I can get back to whatever I was supposed to do. In retrospect it seems like such a waste of time and unnecessary mental burden. I really need to try to do away this addiction. I have't conjured up a 'strategy' yet to beat it but I guess I have to go by some kind of trial and error thing. 

Ok I don't really have much to write today, my mind is too blank, actually I think it is the opposite, too many things in my mind and not able to channelize my thoughts properly. Anyway I am going to stop for now. 

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