Day 31 I'm Staying

I always tell my friends way back then that the reason I write is to express and not to impress. I guess writing helps me as when I look back on old entries, something in my heart remembers the good things and learn from the bad ones. It is like me reading an old self and how I have become. How I changed and is reminded of my roots and grounds.

I am staying here to write my thoughts while I have somehow quit from Facebook and other social media. The problem I see in it is that it just show snapshots and we'd usually put on the best angle of those what happened in our day. It is what others see and we make them think of only what they see. We let them say their opinions about ourselves as when we post, we only take the part/s of our day that's best to be shown in the world. With exceptions of those brokenhearted funny guys posting their faces crying themselves out of pain. Surely, those are also snapshots of the day.

I'd usually think that I could use the prolific social platform to inspire, as sometimes I do, but I realize over the days that during the too much browsing I put myself in pit of mud lurking at other people's lives, honestly sometimes loathing, sometimes in victory over likes on what I put as inspiring, sometimes mad, sometimes aching for what I read. To know how much I can endure, I tried logging out, deactivating the account but soon my mom asked me why I deactivated and started feeling bad because she said she won't put anything in my timeline again. And with my family these days constantly exchanging messages, I could use the platform for communication. So I had to go back. Over time, I began seeing myself feeling bad again about newsfeed when I check it. So I just let my account stay there, checking from day to day if I get any message. It was a discipline.

It says those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter. I've known friends who made to this date without Facebook and still happy and we are close as ever. Those people who matter won't mind me not always there, and those who mind, thinks and says things why we are not there should not matter in our lives.

It was very liberating for me to uninstall Facebook and have been able to discipline myself in not making it part of my free time for online browsing. It helps not to know many things about other people's what-I'm-eating-or-doing or basically what-do-they-have-in-mind. Less all the stalking, loathing, and being annoyed or hurt.

This is just a personal note and I am not saying online media is bad. It has many pros. It depends on how we use it. There are many things we can do but not it doesn't mean it is beneficial. 1 Corinthians 10:23 

Let us just be on guard. As I am also guarding my thoughts and acts and as much as possible, I don't want to be diving into a place where it won't be of too much help in my growth and progress with Christ.

1 Corinthians 10:12
So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall.

2 Peter 3:17
Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position.

Colossians 2:8
See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.