We live in a world surrounded by technology. I'll be the first to admit that I definitely overuse the Internet & social media. I mean... my job is blogging, and that's kind of impossible to do without technology :-) I constantly have my phone in one hand, no matter what I am doing and always seem to feel some kind of separation anxiety when I don't have my phone with me. I easily check my Instagram app 3 times an hour, check the Snapchat app once an hour and FaceBook every few hours. If I stop and think about it, I don't know why I have the need to check social media so often, I guess it's just something that I now do naturally. I've found that whenever I don't know the answer to something I immediately reach for my phone and start Google-ing the question. 

I find nothing more important than taking a day, night or weekend off/away from technology so that I return back to reality. In my ideal world, I would take a night off from technology once a week but that's just not something that is realistic when I'm attempting to catch up on blogging, replying to emails and even checking the updates of my friends on all forms of social media. I'm going to try and take (at least) one night off a week from 6pm - 6am from social media, the Internet and my phone/laptop/television. It's not impossible, and honestly it's one of my favourite things to do. Grab a cup of tea (or wine, depending on my day), light a bunch of candles, gather all of my cosy blankets and read my book before heading to bed for an early night. It's something I would recommend to anyone. 

I know that we live in a world where this seems to be quite impossible, but I feel so refreshed and reconnected to reality and real life afterwards.