Do you like me?

You know…something that’s been on my mind a lot lately is being intentional with my actions. I made a social media post that touched on how I wanted to live like there was no social media that didn’t quite explain what I truly wanted to say. I’m not bashing social media, it has its good pieces and can be used to connect relatives and what have you. What I mean is that I want to disconnect myself from the need to share what I’m doing. The want to know what everyone else is posting constantly. I want to purposefully free myself from living a life through a social media lens.

We live in a society in which “Facebook official” or posting it to your Snapchat Story is a judgement of how true something may be (or whatever the popular social media may be, I’m usually not up to date). I want to live in a way that how many people “liking” what I have to say isn’t something I think or care about. I want to live intentionally.

Time is something we each have an indefinite amount of here on Earth. I want to be present to my children. I want to be engulfed in their days, their thoughts, the desires of their little hearts and be intentional of the role I play in each. Now, I’m not saying that those things aren’t possible if you use social media. I’m just saying that I’ve noticed in my own life that I scroll Facebook when I’m bored, I look at how many notifications there are for me to check at the end of my work day before bed, I know things about people that they haven’t told me in person and then it makes me feel like I know them more personally (but we really don’t, do we?).

Again, social media isn’t evil. It’s not something that you should delete right now. I’m not posting about it being satanic or anything of that nature. I realize it is what we make it. I’m just saying that for myself, I feel an urgency to withdraw more. To care less about the things that are there in text and focus more on the people behind the screens. Build more relationships. Ask people how things are going rather than looking for an update. 1:1 communication rather than public eye watching. Focus on the impact I’m having around me in my day to day and increasing the positivity of that as much as I can.