Pinterest is an amazing tool, you can plan out almost anything. From graduation parties, to special date nights, to meal planning for the week. You can basically become the worlds most organized person with Pinterest. Every millennial girl I follow has boards for their future weddings, and romantic quotes. However sometimes we focus too much on planning our life, that we forget to live it.
In a talk given by Steven Furtick of Elevation Church given on May 10, 2014 I realized I was planning my life but not living it. I was pinning all of these extravagant things to do, but never once was I leaving my computer screen to live life. I had become content with just seeing but never seizing opportunities. From the exercises I pinned that I never did. To the fact I was planning a wedding basically with no Mr. Right and building my "expectations" for a future spouse based on the snapshots that look perfect from someone else's life.
Most of the time the things portrayed on social platforms like Pinterest are the staged moments of peoples life. From the person buying $2000 worth of clothes, to take a picture then returning them, to the recipes that almost NEVER come out good. We see the snapshots of perfection when in reality life is not perfect.
I love Pinterest, do not get me wrong. But at the same time I have learned to balance planning out my future to living my life. I love the fact that I can plan, and grab amazing ideas from Pinterest, but spontaneous surprises are way more exciting than planned picture perfect dates. Balance is important, going into life with no plan at all rarely works for anyone. But I've learned its better to have vision for the future, and a tentative plan. Whenever we don't want to budge from our recipe plan to try something new we miss the value of life's little moments.
When we truly become real and honest on media platforms we become true role models. Ones who can go bare faces out in public and show others that we are beautiful and confident. Ones who can cook a meal even when our phones are dead. Ones who are inspired by things are strive be better, but are not mastered by jealousy of others. Ones who live life and aren't behind a screen looking from likes to validate what we are doing with life.
While sometimes I plan too much, and have a meltdown when it doesn't go the way I envision, I'm trying to take a step back and let God's plan take over my life. Because while I still cannot master the crafts and recipes on Pinterest, its scary thinking that I try to take over my life by myself without someone who knows what He is doing.
