hi friends,
as you all well know, i love books. i love reading them. i love talking about them. and i love talking about them with other people.
however, i have found that the social media side of books was becoming all too overwhelming for me. i started my pages in january of this year to share my love for books, meet good people, and talk about all of the things i love. but, the more i exposed myself to it, that is when the comparison, the perfectionism, and the obligation to keeping up with all of it started to really hit.
i started to ask myself questions like:
"why can't my reels go viral like person a, b, or, c?"
"why isn't the algorithm picking up on my blurbs and posts anymore?"
"why aren't my followers seeing anything i post anymore, and vice versa?"
this was startting to become my whole world and personality. my mental health has been declining, and sometimes you just have this realization where enough is enough.
so, i decided to delete all of them off of my phone. for now, as i work on myself.
i don't know how long i will be gone from it, but long enough so i can work on myself, and put myself in a good and healthy headspace again with better boundaries, and when to say no to things.
in the meantime, i still want to write here on stacker news because i still love books and want to talk about them. just, not in a way that is so draining like mainstream social media is.
i give my greatest gratitude and thanks to you all for being here, and being such a supportive group of people by reading all my blurbs and blah blahs about everything book and non-book related.
take care, happy reading, and stacking!
- your favorite bookstastacker <3