A World Connected, Yet Apart
Not to look far, I would use myself as an example. Today is a free day for me and since waking up at around 6am, I’ve been indoors watching movies and surfing the net. I’ve pretty much don’t little to nothing for almost 12 hours aside cooking and sending some emails. This isn’t the life I’d ideally like to love forever. But other the years, being a homebody has grown to become my thing. Being on my own, with my devices and internet has been my safe space for a while now.
And as much as I’d love to deny it, it has had every negative impact on my mental health. As someone who has battled with my mental health for years, I strongly would not even advise anyone to be on social media 24/7 if it isn’t necessary. Our world has gradually moved from spending time with our friends in family in parks and poke spaces to everyone in the house being holed up in their room doing God knows what. You could literally be in a house with people and wouldn’t even see them go days. Why because we have been made to believe that we can live our lives in social media.
Recently, you’d agree with me that people no more see the importance of physical connections. A friend of mine has been asking me to hang out for over a week now but I keep giving excuses that I’m busy when I’m not. I just don’t like the idea of going out to sit and talk to someone. But I do need it. This story is the same for so many others out there. Now, imagine a father , a mother or even a sibling not having time for his own family. How is the family dynamics expected to be good.
Imagine your parents caring less about you all because they spend the time they are meant to spend with you on TikTok. This isn’t a great example for set for the young ones. And when bad things happen, we go on to blame people who are not even responsible instead of blaming ourselves for not being there. It’s more than obvious that our world today has made it seem that we can live our entire lives on social, however, we need to also understand that we live in a physical world. I bet people wouldn’t even mind getting married to strangers they don’t know on social media and even living their married lives there without knowing each other.
But nothing beats that physical connection we know. We’ve seen it, we have felt it and we know how it feels. Let’s not get too caught up with our screens. Finding a balance between our real world and our screens if the best way to go now , if not we probably wouldn’t need to even live on earth anymore. And what really would be the essence of the beauty of the earth if we can’t at least bask in all the good things at our disposal?
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Honestly, the internet has caused more harm than good. People now get depressed because of the things they see online, many of which might not even be real
You’re very right. We need to change the narative
Most of the people I know do the same thing you describe; they become addicted to spending the day on social media. Ultimately, I think it's up to each of us to set limits to avoid that addiction. I hardly use social media these days for that very reason. Great post, cheers!
That’s a great move right there.
I think we all should follow your steps.