Smule is a singing karaoke app found on the App Store on IOS and android. Over the years I had become accustomed to this app and how it worked and it started to take over my life. I was the one that decided it was more important than my real life and my marriage and I know now that it was wrong of me to have thought that or to have even done that. People make mistakes. It’s part of life I know but I started to realize how I had put all my effort into an app that although I knew was fun, didn’t have to be made out like it was a priority over everything else in my life, which it ended up being. Now it’s time to make things right. I have to. For me and for my family. If I don’t, I will be miserable for the rest of my life and I don’t want that. Who wants that? To have to live where the one thing that I fought for and love slowly disappears because I made the wrong choice? Yes, I’ll admit It is fun and it can help with depression and sadness that people may have in their life, but when it starts to consume them, turn them into someone they are not or personality wise they become someone else, and it starts to create a wall between them and reality then there is a big problem.
I remember the first time I found out about Smule. I was just perusing through the App Store and it caught my eye. I love singing and It was an app I had never heard of and thought hey why not, it sounds fun. Well.. I was right. I loved every second of it, singing my heart away and meeting such amazing people. When I got more into smule and I was being more active singing on it, I decided to become VIP so I could open songs and sing more often. This is where it started to all go downhill. I started to post 10, then 20 then 30 songs one after the other in a day, like I had nothing better to do. It got worse when I started auditioning for competitions. I would abuse housework, didn’t do stuff I was supposed to do as a wife, stopped spending time with my husband because I wanted to sing more than be with him. I didn’t want to do anything cos all I wanted to do was sing and then I’d get upset because people wouldn’t sing with me or I couldn’t join their songs before they expired. I used it an an excuse for my life and it ended up taking a toll on my partner, where we ended up arguing and screaming at each other and slowly almost drifting apart, all because of an app that I was obsessed with. Now I am making things right. I hardly post on Smule, and if I do I’ll sing a few songs with the people I love singing with and leave it at that. I’ve realized that a competition is only a competition and that there will be more so I don’t worry if I cannot submit. I’m spending more quality time with my family and my husband and getting my life back. Back to the way it used to be, when I had fun and enjoyed myself. I should never have let Smule take over my life like it did. Sometimes I think if I hadn’t maybe I wouldn’t be in the position I am in. Guys Smule is addictive. Its like a drug leaving you on a high making you happy, but I have come to realize that I cannot do it like I used to. I can still be on smule and have my life without going overboard with it. I know I may have realized somewhat late but better late than never. Don’t let it consume you..or your life! You’re better than that! I realized before it was too late. Sometimes I think it was the worst decision to make being on that app. Now here’s time rebuilding my life again.
