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Don't Let Social Media Rule Your Life

Who cares if that guy likes your picture or if you're the best looking girl in the crowd?

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Don't Let Social Media Rule Your Life

The Lord's been teaching me to value who I am and what I'm meant for lately.

It's easy for girls to let themselves believe pretty words (devaluing ones as well) and make our image the center of everything we proclaim, but there's so much more happiness found in being okay with everything about yourself-- essentially our inner beauty.

In this day and time everything is centered around social media and how we portray ourselves and it's easy to get so caught up in it that it begins to take a way bigger role in our lives than we originally intended for it to.

We're always wondering what guy is going to follow us or like our picture, or what will make us look the cutest at the next party that will bring in the most compliments and draw guys attention, but at the end of the day none of those things truly matter.

Who cares if that guy likes your picture or if you're the best looking girl in the crowd? Since when did the most important thing become what we look like rather than who we truly are deep down. To go even deeper, since when did we start letting how we look and how many likes we received become more important than how we treat people or what type of person we are.

Because of social media and our appearance becoming so important, it's made us entirely too obsessed with what people think of us. We're constantly trying to appeal to guys and girls day in and day out and it's creating such an irrelevant way of developing relationships with people.

The world is constantly trying to tell us that's what we should do, but looks can only go so far and as my dad says, "Pretty is as pretty does."

Something that's become helpful to me in dating and friendships is to try and push past what the world is telling us to do and begin looking deeper into ourselves and others. Find what makes people passionate, read more books on how to achieve that goal you have, or do more for others rather than spending time trying to be prettier or better and living for the next chance to go out.

I'm telling you, from someone who's let social media rule their life, there is so much more joy found when we put down the app and need for acceptance and search for something more.

Allow God to strengthen yourself to not settle for pretty words, or allow hurtful ones to inject insecurities in places that aren't flawed in the slightest.

Find happiness from within and shine the beautiful aspects of yourself that God purposefully designed with complete certainty.

No boy, no words, no thoughts inside our easily convinced brains can ever take away the value that the Lord's over you. Delight in His goodness tonight and be your own kind of beautiful.

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