One day I was told " I bet you can`t go 30 days without being online, being on the computer, living that fantasy life." Well! The challenge was on!
Now, I want to share with you what it felt like to have computers and phones but not use them at all, well the phone was for calling and not anything of social media.
The ups and downs, the withdrawals was there, oh yeah, better believe that.
But, I am always talking about getting off the grid but I never once gave up my addiction, the internet, social media and that the realization of " I need to practice what I peach" and I mean all of it came to mind. How can I talk about being off the grid with internet being the monkey on my back?
This year I did backslide, right back to just doing and never even thinking about what I have been working toward for so many years, 30 day without internet was one of the hardest things I have done in a very long time.
I seen me and I did not like what I seen. Change is needed and I will get back to my dream of getting all the way off the grid, but doing it in todays world and that would be being online. Being online and learning from others that has already been down the road to "off the grid" can help me.
There is no doubt that I can make this dream come true but I am not alone now so that makes life 100% better.
So, here it is, the raw truth......
The first week was hard so hard that I realized I had my phone in my back pocket off and I still looked at it, and it was not turned on.
I walked around the house wondering what the hell do I need to do and accomplished nothing at all on some of those days. However, I do have this wonderful man in my life and that is where I went to for this 30 days. Learning to live life once again. Residing in my husband.
A few of those days we took long walks in the woods, discovered many things that we did not know and even seeing a deer. I found the place I needed to find, the place that will make life better here and that was an amazing wakening. I seen how to reroute water to better suit me.
With the next few blogs I want to share with you how much I enjoyed and hated being without internet for 30 days.
By Andria Perry
Photo by Andria Perry
