brat_on_break Opened it #1
Some of you saw my goodbye post in January. Very dignified, lots of resolve. This is not that post, because I reinstalled on Saturday.
The cycle goes: get overwhelmed, declare freedom, delete the app, feel amazing for two weeks, get curious, tell myself I’m just checking, reinstall. And the app greets me like nothing happened. Same photos, same bio, same three unanswered chats sitting there like I left the stove on. Honestly the worst part is how smooth they make the return. No friction at all. The door was never locked, I was just standing dramatically on the porch.
Third round this year and it’s March.
Question for people who’ve made a break stick, in either direction. If you stayed gone, what did you do differently? And if you stopped needing breaks at all, how? Because I suspect my problem isn’t the app, it’s how I use it, but deleting is so much easier than adjusting.
