Does social media ever feel like drinking from a water hose?

Does it feel like one more thing on your checklist? Or one more thing to distract you?

Life isn’t always like the pretty square pictures in your feed. Most of the time is hard, tiring, busy, messy, and unorganized.

If that’s you know that I feel you. Last month was one of the hardest we’ve faced in a while. Not that anything huge or terrible happened but we had been going at 60 mph non-stop, hectic pace, working too hard, and over-scheduling ourselves. Breaks were never true breaks. Days off were filled with other things that were exhausting and kept us burning the candle at both ends and we hit the end of our ropes.

And then just like that, we stopped (well life kind of forced us to). Stopped blogging, stopped sharing here and on our Facebook page, just went quiet. And the worst part was…there was SO much guilt!

I felt guilty every week the blog stayed stagnant, that my feed didn’t have something new to share. I got real dramatic and thought these few weeks would cause our business to die and all the hard work we’ve put in to be lost. But you can’t undo 5 years in four weeks and you don’t become irrelevant by taking time off. But oh how we love to believe that lie.

Social media is great, but let’s not forget it is not a life. It’s a beautiful platform to share a piece of what is happening but it’s not the complete picture, it’s not what our lives should focus around. Sometimes it feels that way though.

So today I want you to put the device down. Take a deep breath. Know that it is going to be ok to be with the people you love instead of working for just one more hour. Stop coveting others perceived lives and go live yours. And know that I need to read this as much as I hope you needed to hear it today. And most of the time life is better lived unplugged.