Seclusion

I watched Iron Man 2 yesterday and one part stuck out to me.

When the good guys (SHIELD) wanted Tony Stark to fulfill his destiny of finishing his fathers' work they secluded him from the outside world. They cut off the phone and internet.

Lately, I've been trying to do that. I have slowly tried pulling away from Facebook, which is probably my biggest time-waster. It's amazing the power that an inanimate, unemotional, pixelated website can hold on a person.

I've tried the cold turkey thing before with Facebook; just not going on it at all. I usually only last a week. So this time I did it a little different and the planets must have been aligned or something because things are working out.

My roommate, who doesn't own a laptop, was in need of one during last week because his class went off-campus to Wells Fargo headquarters. So I let him borrow mine. (Josh, my apologies for mentioning that place).

For a week I didn't have a laptop until about five o'clock. This greatly reduces the chances of me going on Facebook. If I needed a computer I would go to the library where I was much more productive in my work.

I am slowly, gradually trying to make myself more secluded. I'm not trying to be anti-social, just trying to be less distracted. This way, I can focus more of my attention at the people around me, these posts I write, and my homework. I think it will make a better story.

I find myself becoming more and more eager to make bigger changes but I urge myself to go slow.

My plan, in the future, is to go without using a cellphone one day a week. The plan has flaws though. Emergencies are bound to happen on the day I actually need a cellphone or if I'm doing a group project they have to contact me somehow. The cellphone plan is currently on hold until I set parameters around what I can and cannot do. Self-control being the hardest thing to accomplish

I also plan on going without Facebook for long stretches, making it less and less of a priority in life.

The Twitter stays. It hasn't consumed me and I don't think it will.

In Iron Man 2, Tony Stark created a new element with his time of seclusion. I don't have that high of aspirations. That sort of thing isn't exactly my forte. I don't know what I plan on doing with the time I will have, in a way, created for myself. Maybe nap more often, read more books, or just spend time with other people.