Part 3/9: Day(s) Before Detox

Getting ready the vanishing cream.

On the week before I started my detox, I mustered the courage to inform only a few friends that I would disappear after the last exam paper (and do social media detox). I’ve also devised a ‘green lane’ for some of these friends to communicate with me so that we would still meet on a weekly basis (which I’ll bring about later). Of course, I did inform my family members too I would be going on a detox so that they would SMS me instead of WhatsApp-ing me.

After my final paper, I was ready to disappear from the scene, but not in the way I would’ve anticipated myself. I failed to vanish without a trace, if not for failing to complete the paper on time (not to say before the cut off time). People actually bade me farewell though, not that I expected it either… It also just so happened that two separate individuals just have to message me on that very fateful day out of all the other days, as if they’re sending me their last words before I was sent onto the death bed. There I’ll want to say, “SO MANY DAYS CAN MESSAGE ME, ONLY KNOW HOW TO MESSAGE ON THE DAY BEFORE I DETOX. STUPID ONE THIS ONE!”. Both individuals would ask me on that very fateful day if I’d have any plans after my last paper. Why ask eh? You want to meet up, is it? No. I would want to go home ASAP to ‘rest’, but in fact was to clear my ‘office’ before I announced on my Instagram account that I’m going on a detox later that night. To be fair, I also didn’t inform them beforehand that I was going on a detox, so it was useless calling them stupid.

Deleting tens of thousands of useless photos from WhatsApp that occupied precious internal storage was akin to clearing up your office desk when you no longer become an office staff there. The emotional feeling is there, just so you know. Fun facts: I almost didn’t take a sleep on the very fateful day before I went on a detox, because I was busy deleting these tens of thousands of useless photos from WhatsApp in batches. My phone also crashed several times because there’s too much to handle. I’d eventually almost took 2 days to clear all those useless photos from WhatsApp. But I don’t regret it.

Finally, I made an announcement on my Instagram account about my detox before I sought ‘refuge’. I have my own reasons of making that announcement, but it’s fine with me if some of you choose to think that I’m seeking for attention only. If I didn’t announce, then people who didn’t know would unknowingly message me and would get no reply on my side! So by informing them, I’m being good enough to keep them on the know.

How have my first day of detox went? Stay tuned to Part 4, coming out tomorrow.