Before you begin reading this blog, can you take a second to think if you ever had a thought to quit Instagram. Did it ever cross your mind that it is just not worth it? If it did, even for a split of a second, you are one of the many millions who are thinking logical and straight. Two years ago, I quit Instagram fully (deleted my account, deleted the app) from my life. Here’s why?

I have a theory that involves these fascinating and remarkably essential three D’s:

Dedication is something we need when we want to accomplish tasks. Be it simple tasks like washing clothes, cooking an Omelette, or slightly complicated tasks like calculating a calculus problem or understanding quantum entanglement. You need dedication for everything you want to do. The reason is it helps you reach the end of the task successfully. And if you, somehow, fail to successfully finish the task, you can start again with the same or even more (may be a little less due to failure 😦 ) amount of commitment. But you need to have some commitment for it. Some believe you need dedication to be the best of all, I believe you need dedication to be the best of yourself. A new you, a better you, a version of you who fights back and accepts failure as a process and not a destination. You don’t always have to win or be successful at each and everything you do in your life, but to be satisfied with the failure or non-successful attempt(s) you need to have the strength that allows you to accept that you did your best and rest is not essential.

Disturbance : To do your best, you do not only need to have dedication, but you should be smart enough to avoid the unnecessary distractions around you. When you’re studying for an exam or writing a final thesis/report, a smart move would be to choose a calm place, have a ToDo list with prioritized tasks to accomplish, keep your mobile phone away, somewhere you cannot find, start pomodoro technique and study with full concentration. Neither do you want the blink-new message notification light to bring you out of your concentration zone, nor do you want to have your family members in your room, looking at you or talking to each other around, since it is clear to you this will disturb you throughout. To achieve your study goals you have a fixed amount of time, once this is over you won’t get a second chance for the exam (only if you fail, and we do not want that, right?)

Destruction, and if you are not doing or having the above two traits in your life you are probably, slowly but surely heading towards damaging your own life. If you are unable to have a dedicated goal or an objective and work towards it with full concentration what good your brain is? We are humans, the species smarter and sharper than any other – by far discovered – species on planet Earth. We are the critical thinkers, we can solve problems that computers can’t (relationships, break-ups, patch-ups 😉 ). We can express emotions and handle them, we can calm people down and help them smile again, we can birth a child and love it unconditionally and what not. And if with this smart brain we are not able to understand how Instagram is influencing us nurture our dedication capabilities and is constantly disturbing us from reaching our very essential objectives, – living life to its fullest being the very first one – then we are heading no where but to our own destruction. Aren’t we?