Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other forms of social media were created so we can keep in contact with other people in our lives, and give updates to those people about what we've been up to. Within the past few years, we've taken it too far.
With all of the media we have access to nowadays, we can really become anyone we want to the outside world. We can share the cool stuff, and hide the embarrassing away where it will never see the light of day.... or light of a computer screen, rather.
We delete the awful pictures from middle school. We overshare our pictures of parties with our large groups of friends. All so we can make sure that how we look online will somehow trick people into thinking you don't have any problems and that you are as close to "perfect" as possible.
We define ourselves with likes, retweets, and followers. Almost as if we lose value when we lose followers and don't get as many likes on a picture as we thought we deserve.
Some people post a selfie every other day, ensuring a bunch of "OMG you're so pretty" and "Damn girl *flame emoji*."
My question is: Would you do half of the things you do if you couldn't tell anyone about it?
If you're at a party, and to prove that you were there and had a blast, you had to put the whole thing on Snapchat for everyone to see.
You went on a mission trip, so of course you HAVE to post every photo of the work you did, as if the work didn't get done if you didn't share all of it online.
It snowed, and obviously it didn't happen if you didn't take pictures to prove it!
I am guilty of some of these things. I love my social media platforms. We all, as a generation, need to take a step back and just remember to exist in the moment. The world won't come crumbling down when we forget to Snapchat our night out. No one will think you're lame if you tweet something funny and don't get any favorites or retweets.
You exist on this planet with billions of other people where there are billions of moments happening at one time. You only get so many moments. God gives you a limited number of moments.
Choose to live through your own eyes, and not the lens of a camera phone.
Don't try to make other people believe you're happy. Spend that extra energy on actually pursuing happiness.
Life can't wait, the phone can.
