No Social Media, Yes Real life!

No Social Media, Yes Real life!

-Girls, wait, I'm taking a picture!

-Come on! I'm hungry!

-One last time. Please!

While Maryam's friends looked forward to eating the cakes on the table, Maryam shared the picture of this beautiful table. An intense and stressful term came to an end. She made a list of TV series she wanted to watch over the holidays. During the first few weeks of the holidays, she spent hours in her room by watching TV series and on Instagram. During the whole week, day and night, she only left her room to eat. One morning, Maryam heard women laughing at home and went into the living room.  Her mother invited her friends over for breakfast and they were laughing and chatting.

The next day, when Maryam went into the kitchen to have breakfast, she saw her mother cooking a variety of dishes. These dishes were for her old neighbor, Leyla. Leyla's father died. Maryam's mother made these dishes to support her friend Leyla. Maryam didn’t understand her 60-year-old mother's sociability. She also had many friends, but mostly on social media. Her posts during the summer holidays were liked by her followers.  As time went by, she got bored of posting.  There was nobody around her. When she got sick no one called her. No one cared her. She felt lonely and unhappy. It was a good idea to meet her friends like her mother. She thought that she saw them every day on Instagram. She didn’t miss any of them.

What made her mother a person who could enjoy life so much?

What did she talk about so enthusiastically when she met her friends?

These questions were on Maryam's mind.  When this strange situation caught her attention, she started watching her mother. She realized how much fun they were having without taking photos or visiting the places without an instagram story. She didn't know what to do at first, she always thought what would happen with a few shares but he realized that things were not like that. After a long and dilemma-filled time she decided to She decided to build personal relationships like her mother. She started by deleting her social media applications.  For a while she felt lonely and empty.  How would she hear from her friends? How would she keep up with the latest trends? She calmed herself.  She needed to feel connected to someone. She went straight to her mother and made her a cup of coffee.  "Mum, what are you doing today, can I help you?"  Since there was nothing to do during the day, she spent more time with her mother and went shopping with her father at the weekends. In her spare time, she learned to cook and went for walks. The more she took up new hobbies, the more she distanced herself from social media and TV series. It was easier to go bed and get up early.

One day Maryam invited her friends from school for a picnic in the garden of their house. She had a great time with her friends. 

She and her mother prepared cakes, cookies and lemonade for the guests. It was a very glamorous picnic table! Maryam did not care to take a picture of it. She joined her friends and enjoyed the time.

She realized that social media is like hypnosis, making people more antisocial. No longer needed applications of it to entertain her. She was now a skilled person who can make herself and those around her happy. Her new motto was ‘no social media, yes real life!’ 

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