Hi, I came back now (Yeah I know that I’m a liar to told everyone that I’ll come back in December, but I’m somehow okay now? I felt like this is the times to explain the truthful now) So I’ll explain my decision for why I’m taking the break and also to explain my regretted. Please note that this is explained, not to excuse my action.
A month ago, I really enjoyed my time around others online, as I kept uploading my work and talking with them with no hard feelings at all.
But then weeks ago, every time I tried to reply to someone else story and/or share the story and repost (Like TikTok's feature for some reason) on Instagram, all it made me feel more… pathetic? Not only that, but now I also realised that it was rather more like an obsession one-sided at that point since I sometimes comment or message the same person (I talk to more than one person, my point still stands).
I keep thinking over and over that I came across as annoying to someone and insecure around them. More and I keep thinking that again, again, and again; the more it fuels me to overthink everything in a much destructive way. Because of that, I went straight to writing my issue on Tumblr as it perfectly described what my thoughts were to look like.
Man, I really have unresolved issue with my overthinking and myself. Every time when I keep thinking over and over and that’s all over about the non-issue stuff and social media.
I keep overanalysing what was I said and what was I doing before. I keep assuming other thinking of me as negative and/or weird because of what I said or was I doing. I keep imagining the worst case scenario, even it’s not always that case. And I always seek reassuringly, even they didn’t think me of as negative.
I wish there’s an easier way to forget about too much negative thought quickly because I really didn’t want to leave me damaging myself more like I used to be. But it didn’t go away, and I can’t avoid it.
But when I thought about that more, all it makes me sad to thinking about.
After I was writing that, I thought it would go away because sometimes when I write it out of feeling, it starts to fade away. But here, unlike my previous experience, it takes much longer. So even I have already disabled the notification from social media (Except for Facebook and Zalo, they’re my family, my classmates, and my school uses it for communication; so I feel like not using those apps would leave them confused and wondering why I stopped that, especially since I never communicate with someone I trusted about my problem involved online, so that was why) and would not look at social media longer until I decided to check; that reflection and sensation were still there, it keeps haunting me every time, and I truly feel like I’m uncomfortable with my condition right now and that’s part when I can’t stay on social media any longer.
Which is something I really didn’t want to for in these years, because this is what I want to be getting away from repeating as that was what make my mental health was getting worse.
I don’t want to be bitter any more. I don’t want to be melancholy any more. I don’t want to be reminded of how disconnected I was around them yet as same-time want to bond with them. I don’t want to be reminded of how I was desperate to want to have new friends and be centred on current friends.
I want to be happy with who I am then and now. I want to be the best version of myself. I want to be proud of myself, and I even want to make my past me proud of my progression. I want to be a reality check with myself. I want to improve myself and not be haunted by my mistakes any more.
But it then fell flat when it reflected on my relationship with someone I know, when I kept imagining the worst-case scenario (E.g. if I have more negative points, I’m really scared about this because I feel my parents would find me more annoying in the worst way once I have grown up all because my points didn’t improve, bonus if I were a boy. It is actually what happened to my brother back when he was a kid. They didn’t do that again, but it still impacts me to remember that, especially what my father said to me when I got punished for not taking enough sleep in the Vietnamese language: “What are you crying for!?” (I’m having a strong emotional response), “If it were the strangers’ children, I don’t care because this is not my child”, “In truth, I want to beat you so bad”, while I know what he said, but I don’t know how to structure my sentences to argue, and I stare at my mother says nothing and watches my father scold me instead. While they’re likeable, work-hardening, and humble person around with their relatives and their friends, I really don’t know if they finally understood how it influenced my brother and me emotionally with their verbal and action like that, genuinely regretted it, apologised to us, and took accountability) and reminded of how I was isolated, alienated, and a bit of unloved on the internet and offline. Be self-love was not enough for me at that point; and that part made me cry on the bed.
“It gets worse, there’s nothing to make me feel relaxed now, I don’t know if that going to be okay,” That was my thought. It was also already happen to me in 2019–2024 as I keep crying on the bed to point that I can’t even sleep as peaceful, wondering if I am going to have redemption and forgive myself due to enable my ex-friend’s worst contribution (In the truth I don’t want to hide from everyone any more. Back on Twitter, we both were sending the NSFW art each other and drawing that topic too, while we’re underage doing that (I was 11yo and she was 16yo, yes I know it doesn’t sound believable, I wasn’t the best person); THAT’S the reason I’m never want to go back to my Godzilla phrase and why I don’t believe to redeem myself or deserve to redeem; this was also why I hated myself back on Twitter and DeviantArt at the times I was still having Godzilla and Dinosaucers phrase to point that when I was thinking how if I weren’t existing everybody would be happy without me involving and also at once point when I consider to doing suicide)
So, my solution for this? To quit social media, just keep doing my hobby and focus on right now. Since I keep drawing and everything else that’s not social media to make me feel satisfied, at least it benefits me. You can say that the fact that I leave from the social media was a surprise. To be frank, I never want to open my issue and complaint to the person I trusted because I always thought that it would make me selfish, come across attention seeker, and also that I was a liar. This was why I was hesitant if I post my issue and the warning in the first place, but even not opening my issue and keeping it to myself and not be truthful end up not help at all.
But now ever since I’m finally quit from social media; I’m finally feel calm from myself, my brain was now relaxing, and my heart and gut was no longer at bad feeling any more. Honestly, writing this maybe does help me now, but I still wonder what people thinking of me now I’m telling the truth, and I don’t even know if I can continue to post know that now.
Too long, don’t read: Overthinking got me and because I already have bad memories and didn’t have good experience from my previous special interest phrase, thus I have to quit from the social media for the first-time.