It might be a quarter life crisis or just the stirring in my soul

Meggie P is my longest standing friend to date. She has been in my life since middle school. Back then, we would lay in bed and talk about our college, marriage, and babies like they were eons away. We would discuss where we thought we'd be at 18, 21, 25, what we hoped to have accomplished by that point in time, where we thought our friends would be, if we even still would be friends. The two girls who made those predictions lived in a different world. Their world was five blocks wide, all their lives laid before them, and every road led home... oh.. and one very important difference - FACEBOOK did not exist.


I guess your wondering the point I am trying to make.... well even though Meg and I have both experienced great sucess in our lives thus far despite not being in the exact places we'd predicted we'd be; we are left feeling unfufilled by our success. The reason? Facebook.

Facebook, dont get me wrong, is a great tool for keeping in touch with friends. But facebook also does something evil. Facebook makes it incredibly easy to compare yourself to others and take note of where your life lacks. Newsfeed picks your "top stories" which I swear they do based on your biggest insecurities at that moment. See, if your worried you'll never get engaged, then it just happens that your top stories pertain to all your closest freinds and their newly aquired bling. Being able to compare the sucesses and failures in your own life to the 685 "friends" you have on FB at a touch of a button can make even the most sucessful people feel unsucessful.

So today, Meggie P and I got talking about how addicted we are to FB stalking, and how we use it as a self loathing tool to remind ourselves what we've yet to acheive - be it marriage, babies, jobs, what-have-you. We got thinking, would we feel better if we were not members of the most popular networking tool to date? Instead we were living our own lives indifferent to what other people around us were doing/saying/seeing/traveling/making up with and breaking up with? While quitting facebook all together, would never be an option either of us were persue because we're both cracked out on it, we decided to take a one week break from the social network and see if our happiness improves. Also, we plan to document the things we do that are productive to our own lives, in the time we would have spent stalking others. So here it goes, one week without....