Below are some of my thoughts on the first ritual I completed. In this ritual, I had to use calling exclusively for communicating with people.

It is not necessarily a difficult thing to do per say, but there were a few ups and downs. My biggest mistake was thinking that the ritual had started earlier than it had. So apparently it felt like forever before I was able to text again.

It made me realize how often I do text and email people though. Sometimes I like to just randomly take a picture or text someone when I think/see something that reminds me of them. I actually stopped doing it this past week because I couldn’t. It never made me feel more inclined to call them, it just made me less likely to interact with a lot of people.

Over that week I actually had phone calls with like 5 people, whereas texting I could talk with 20+ people in a week. This was the biggest change up, just the amount of communication I had.

It did also make me use social media less because I couldn’t like or share different things I saw, so I felt weird being on there and lurking or posting vague things, but then not being able to interact with other people on my posts.

I found myself making lists of things I wanted to talk with people about, and either calling them once the list was long enough or telling them the next time I saw them in person. Because if I think a random thought, I’m not going to just call someone like 20 times a day with those things. As much as I normally don’t post a ton on social media, I do actually share a good portion of my life, just with specific people.