At first, scrolling through beautiful pictures on a social media page called “The view from my window” was really lovely. Wonderful views were being shared from all around the world. It was stunning! But after a while some of them got me aching… ‘I want to be THERE’. I want to have THAT view. And on the flip side of that was a sense of dissatisfaction with where I was in my life. With the view from my window.
The crazy thing about this is that the view from my window is literally and figuratively amazing. I am experiencing some of the best days of my life. And yet, scrolling through social media makes me forget all of that in an instant. Because at the end of the day, there’s always ‘more’.
More, more, more
More places, more success, more fun, more love, more beauty, more romance, more luxury, more confidence, more adventure, more money, more stuff, more health, more freedom… and as I observe this never-ending world of ‘more’, I’m continually reminded of how much I don’t yet have.
Not only does this make me commit the grave mistake of closing my heart to all my existing blessings, but it also makes me see what I do have through a darkened lens.
Instead of seeing all the positives of what I have, I see only what is missing. I see the flaws, mistakes, errors and imperfections. I see problems and not enough-ness. I see inadequacy and I ache for more because the screen tells me more is possible. Other people have it. Why shouldn’t I?
There’s a difference between an aspiration led by God and a craving led by flesh.
The closer I look at this experience with social media, I see how it elicits my cravings. There’s nothing Graceful about it. It awakens envy, greed, pride and even wrath as I feel angry that I don’t have what others do.
Envy… greed… pride… wrath… they’re called the deadly sins for a reason. They will literally kill your life. And social media is flooding us with them.
These are not energies you want to be in. They are low. They are harmful. They keep you down. They keep you in darkness and cut you off from the light. 💡
So Get. Off. The. Phone. 📵
The digital cosmos we enter through the screen is an illusory world.
Social media is full of filters, sound bites and carefully curated content, with fake smiles and glitz and glam. It’s a show. It’s where very few people are able to be real and even those that are can only show us so much, because it’s merely a window. It’s not the whole picture.
And now with the advent of AI, the illusion will be supercharged and we won’t even know we’re being deceived. We’ll be sucked further into darkness, into cravings of who, what and where we wish to be, whilst our real, tangible life floats on by, aimlessly disappearing into the distance.
Look, there are amazing things on social media. Beautiful teachings and creativity, heart felt wisdom and stunning shares. But it still sucks me out of my own reality and always has me walking on the perimeter of darkness. Envy, greed, pride and wrath – one slip and I’m in. Those deadly sins hit me again. So the best thing for me is to just get off it. I can post, but I can’t scroll. I have to set my boundaries. Because I don’t want to live on the edge of darkness. I want to be fully in the light.
Be. Here. Now.
As I write this, my cat is squeaking at me, calling me back to this present moment. As I stroke her silky soft fur and look at her pretty little face, I’m reminded that my life is in what I can see around me right here and right now.
My life is in what I can touch, smell, taste, hear and feel. It’s in the deeper presence and experience of my own spirit as I walk this Earth, in this body. It’s not in a screen, it’s not in other people’s pictures and videos, it’s not in the digital world. It’s in the real one. And that’s the one I want to live in. And it’s definitely the window with the best view. 🤩
