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"Connections and Why They Matter"
Most of what happens in our life will spark a connection. Life connects with what has been found in books. Books connect with what happens in life. Use the connections to help you see more clearly. A love of reading and writing is what motivated the creation of this blog. Thank you for coming to the blog.
Social Media isn’t real life portrayed: It often is just fantasy. Research shows that they had a false sense of belonging and connecting that wasn't real-world based. One big reason is that all those "assumed connections" that people check in on out of habit several times a day look like they have a perfect life. What seems to be just often isn't real, and if your life isn't perfect, it can be depressing.
Social Media doesn't give you a real sense of the world around you or what other people are. People can be whoever they want to be on those sites. Whatever they do, it can be a staged situation, not a shared life. Our lives can look dull in comparison, leading to a lot of stress and anxiety. Not good things. Other people’s passions can be polarizing.
Depression, in part, is a state of not caring. The world turns "black and cold" all around us when we’re depressed. Things don't matter. Anxiety may be the other end of this same spectrum. On that side, you care "far too much about everything," and there is no way to accomplish everything you care about.
Connecting with people can help with either problem. Getting "out of ourselves" helps. People, books, art, poetry, service, ancestors, and music, can all help us get out of ourselves. If people are going to pull us out, they need to be pulling us into the real world, not a made-up fantasy online reality show.
Having said this, I have to acknowledge the real world. I may wind up using these same social media sites as places to offer some very short encouragement and to try to pull people to this site. I don't think I originated any of this, so I hope you don't want to hang the messenger.