My life has always felt like the area between the holes on a belt or watch band. Never really comfortable. it’s either too tight or too loose.
We are who we are and learn to deal with our situations in life through being omnipresent with our encounters. The way to happiness is how we engage or don’t engage with these encounters.
We engage with our bodies to make them stronger. We engage with our diet and health to make us stronger. But do we engage with our minds to make them stronger?
Social Media has the capability to make our minds stronger, but does it? Or does it make us lazier and dumber and leading to shorter attention spans with a preference for immediate gratification and avoiding critical analysis.
We have become algorithms to sell products,. Whether it be, charitable, political, racial, sexual or commercial. That is its focus.
Having the world at our fingertips should provide an abundance of opportunity to be better humans toward each other but it hasn’t. It has the opportunities of gaining wisdom and understanding. However, it’s made us more untrusting, incapable, unstable and unhappy.
This addiction has created a significant, divisive, division while we voluntarily pay a fee to be part of it all. We must rise above it.
Like it’s forefather television, social media was created to control our minds, behaviors, thoughts and wallets with a ding, clicks and likes. Taking our attention away from the truly important things.
Ultimately, we have the power to choose how we interact with this technology, whether it be positive or negative. Choose wisely.
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Chu The Cud 
There is a book called, How to Break Up With Your Phone. It is brilliant and a call to live life on your terms and not on the terms we are guided to by the ever present phone ding. Finding your own path to connection and life is ultimately up to us. I wish more would see it that way.
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