Hello, how are you doing?

I recently experienced something in my life, I lost my phone at my workplace. Let me dive straight into it. Everything was going well at work, then I was trying to show a lady something on my phone to help with her assignment, just to realise my phone was gone. I was calm, but surprised. I told everyone I could, but we could not find it. My shift ended at 1500hrs that day and I went home, told my parents and just kept calm. I had this thought when I got home, when I was looking for my phone, people at work where worried for me. I thought to myself, man I can deal with not having a phone at all. Less stress, less time-wasting and more things of God and more things to do that actually add meaning to my life. I felt happy for losing my phone in a sense. I hoped of not finding it anytime soon. I eventually found my phone at work that day. Turns out, a patient who had dementia had accidently taken it. I went back to work at 1900hrs to get the phone back. I got my phone back and nothing changed. I got to work the next day, I felt like a celebrity. Everyone was happy I found my phone. A co-worker commented “its good you found your phone”. I replied why? She said “it’s harder to start again”. I laughed and thought within myself “Hmmm, this lady knows nothing about me, I have nothing on my phone, I only use it for emails and calls, podcast sometimes”. Funny enough, another lady said “you were so chill yesterday, if I loosed my phone, I would be so worried”. I replied “I have nothing on my phone, no social media, I had a flip phone ready to be used” she said “oh ok, it’s different then”. I thought to myself, no wonder why everyone is stressed and depressed nowadays.

Social media is met to bring everyone together, yet everyone feels very lonely. Why do your favourite celebrities deactivate their account when they are depressed, then they go find some “happiness”, just to come back to waste their lives again. It’s a revolving door. You don’t see it!!! Of course not. The false validation it gives you is not enough, when will it be? I hate to break it, it will never be enough. The dopamine will never be satisfied. Although social media can offer a lot of good. The phantom happiness will always disappear. I can not risk using it, just to lose my live. Let me ask you, are you actually living live? I will answer it for you “NO”. How can you be living life, when you are too busy scrolling your soul away? I remember when I used to use Instagram, I always think I was not enough. Even when my life is good and I was happy, I always found out that someone was more happy, well according to their post and caption. I always thought someone was having it better than I was. Don’t get me wrong, someone is probably is. But this was a battle within myself. Social media offers nothing. I would advice to abstain entirely if possible. Don’t lose your life for nothing. Time flies, don’t waste not living in reality. I will tell you something, people say you can’t live without social media, you can, it’s called self-discipline. Let me leave you with this, I used to speak to a girl I met at work that I liked, on her social media accounts, she is living life to the fullest, but in real life she medicated for depression. She said to me “I care a lot about what people think about me”. Thanks to the monster we can live without “Social Media”.

Thanks for reading and KEEP THE FAITH STRONG!!!!