I'm not Catholic. In fact, I'm about as far from being Catholic as you can be and still be considered the same religion - I'm Pentecostal. As such, I have never observed Lent before (Lent is a time of fasting and getting closer to God the 40 days leading up to Easter). This year I have decided to observe a modified version of Lent: Instead of fasting food as is traditional, I will be fasting Facebook. When I was trying to think of something that I either spend a lot of time with/using/doing, Facebook is the first thing that came to mind. I log into Facebook every day, multiple times a day, and spend many more hours clicking on little squares on Farmville or cyber-stalking people's updates than I do working on homework or playing the piano or reading my Bible - combined. In the time I spend on Facebook every day, I have the time to do all my homework twice every day. That's just insane. So I made the tough decision - I logged out on my computer and deleted the app on my iPhone.
It has now been one week. Most of the time I'm okay, but there are other times where my addiction withdraw kicks in and I want to log in and start clicking on little squares again. All in all, I don't regret my decision.
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