With Every Swipe I Take
Social media can be a trigger for me. However, it all depends on what I’m seeing or scrolling through to determine what that trigger will be. Sometimes, I hop on to see what family is up to or to find funny memes and laugh… and then send them to my husband. Funny memes are a trigger for happiness.
But often, I don’t even go on social media because it’s a barrage of “fake” fronts of people showing or telling how great they are, or how great their life is, when really, I’m snickering behind every swipe, knowing full well how untrue it all is. With every swipe, I’m judging.
This is when I have to guard my heart. Because how easy has it become compare or criticize with every swipe? It’s horrible. My heart is evil. Am I watching social media to judge? Is that what I’ve become? What we have become?
If my mouth had to speak what my mind thought, my hours of social media would be spent criticizing everything I saw. While this is honest, and I don’t want to think about it, it’s true. And I know social media has fueled this action.
Social media has its uses, but more often than not, it creates triggers in me: forcing me to face my insecurities, berate others, or criticize them. This year, I’m opting for less social media. I want to love more, and that doesn’t come from being angry or critical of everything I see.
A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of (Luke 6:45, NIV).
Finch Food for Thought: I can control my thoughts by taking the problem source out of my life.