Could you do what 34-year-old Ryan Beale of Huntington Woods writes about in a new book? It's titled "Forty Days Off Facebook."
"We’re always chasing something," Ryan Beale says, "and we tend to lose sight of ourselves."
Divorce and his brother's suicide prompted the social media break, he tells Monica Drake of The Oakland Press. Beale, a real estate executive, turned his experience into a 190-page paperback published this month.
Beale said these 40 days without social media allowed the relationships in his life to strengthen because, if his friends wanted to talk to him, they would have to call him or see him in person. It also allowed him to think about the tragedies he had gone through and made him reassess what he wanted for his future. . . .
“We’re always chasing something, and we tend to lose sight of ourselves. . . . A seemingly innocent addictive cycle can become dangerous because it distracts you from connecting to your core.” . . .
He hopes his book with show people suffering from depression that they have a chance to renew their lives.
Beale will sell and sign his book Tuesday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Main Art Theatre, 118 N. Main St. in Royal.
