Each person is made with their own weaknesses. You may struggle with lust and I don’t. We tend to hide these weaknesses from our friends, family, and our church. I have come to realize that those weaknesses can either make us or break us. God doesn’t put mountains in front of us that we can’t climb. And none of us are alone in these struggles.
For a lot of my life I have struggled with comparing myself to other people. In todays world it is so easy to do this. We have twitter, facebook, instagram, and countless other social media account where people post about their life 24/7. I can easily go onto one of these apps and see what someone is doing, who they are dating, and even find out what their workout routine is. For me, and probably a lot of people, I go on and I get jealous. I start to wish that I was traveling as much as this person or that I was as skinny as that person. It starts off small but its like poison in my brain and it slowly starts to spread. This poison makes me put myself down and instead of enjoying the things that God has given me I sit in bed and cut myself off from the rest of the world. This is very unhealthy and I have a feeling that some of you can relate to this feeling.
Finals week was coming and I have been putting myself down for a few weeks. I could not take it anymore so I deleted all of my social media apps. My finals lasted a week and there days. I decided that I would not download any of the apps till my finals were over. This gave me the opportunity to do a few things. 1. I was able to study without anything distracting me. 2. I was able to love myself again.
Finals are over and I do not know if I want any of my social media apps back. At first it was weird because I had zero notifications. I would be looking at my phone every 30 minutes expecting there to be a like on my instagram post or a notification saying that my best friend just posted on twitter. It took me a few days to get use to the fact that I was only going to get text and phone calls. But once those first few days were over it felt good not to be on my phone every free second that I got.
I know that I’m not perfect but I also know that God made me perfect in His eyes. This world is full of things that bring us down but we have to be willing to change the things that are hurting us. I got rid of all the things that were hurting me and it helped me care more for the other things that God has given me.
I challenge everyone to mute their social media for 24 hours. It will feel so good to focus on all the things you love abut yourself instead of on the things you wish you could change.
