What are some of the traps to avoid in life--including Social Media?
1st Trap to Avoid -- Trying To Please Others
If we try to please others
we're like a gerbil on a plastic ball
breathlessly running and getting nowhere.
In a world controlled by polls, surveys and
politically correct speech--
freedom to be ourselves is rare.
People try to tell us how to think
spiritually,
politically and
socially--
including which cars to buy, which movies to watch,
and my goodness--
if you're not on drugs something's wrong with you.
Yes, a drugged-up society of controlled thinkers.
What a trap of misery.
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we'll find freedom
despite the objection of others.
And like the lighthouse,
we will be a light of freedom for others along the way.
"To be yourself in a world constantly trying to make you
something else is the greatest accomplishment."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
2nd Trap to Avoid -- Getting Caught Up in a Selfie-Society
A headline read:
"Actress Julia Roberts explains
why she avoids social media... she spoke with
Stellar magazine about avoiding the effects
of narcissism on social media."
And to that I say, "Amen, Julia Roberts."
Often on Twitter, Facebook, blogs and
In day to day conversation people
Bore others to death with self centered trivia.
What they ate for breakfast
Where they're going,
What they're doing.
Self-absorbed stuff.
All about
Me, me, me.
A young mother shared that her teenaged daughter
has difficulty with friends not showing concern
for her and her challenges
because they're too wrapped up in their devices.
Why don't we:
Stop
Look
Stop
Look
and
Listen
Listen
And see what others are saying?
Why don't we respond and
Help change our Me-ism society.
It's possible and we can do it.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
--Albert Einstein
And then from the book of all Books--the Bible:
"Through love, serve one another" (Galatians 5:13).
"Do to others as you would have them do to you"
(Matthew 7:12).
Today and all of our tomorrows
Can be richer,
Joy-filled and
More Purposeful.
Out of ourselves and
Into the Light of a brighter Life.
"Yesterday is gone.
Tomorrow has not yet come.
We have only today.
Let us begin."
--Mother Teresa
--Bobbe Brooks
