Life Lesson #78

Negativity is everywhere, even in social media. Now don't get me wrong, social media is the best thing to happen to society all in due part to the internet. It serves as the means to connecting and expressing yourself to the world. However, it comes with a price. We are taught at a very early age to look to others for self approval and acceptance. How we speak, walk, listen, and think are all molded by the world we live in. The definition of beauty, intelligence, success, failure, etc are all preset by the standards of society, and we all try daily to fit into these standards. Due to social media now being the primary source/method of communication and expression, what we see on the TV or the internet, we usually tend to believe. We start comparing our own lives with the people and things we are being exposed to and start seeking ways to stand up to par otherwise we feel unaccomplished or unworthy. Life is meant to be self defined and self approved and to be lived by your standards and definitions. Don't go looking for self acceptance otherwise you'll only get lost in the crowd. All you've got to do is look to yourself, thats where your true happiness lies.

No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self approval. 

- Minot Simons