We have become a society of watchers. What do I mean? With all the social media platforms, we have the ability to just sit at home, in a coffee shop, at the park...wherever we please and just watch what other people are doing. These people may be close family or friends or they may be people we have never met before, but we look through their pictures, read their posts and watch what they do day after day. This sounds kinda creepy when you actually type it all out, doesn't it?
In all seriousness, this is what our day to day life is now comprised of. We have literally become obsessed with watching what other people do, how they live, what they wear, what they eat, where they travel, etc. If we have a few minutes in our day that we don't know what to do with, instead of doing something like going for a walk or reading a chapter in a book we sit down on the closest comfy piece of furniture and begin scrolling through our favorite people's pages to see if we have missed something they have done that day. Has their day gone smoothly? The weather is really cold where they are today, wonder what they decided to wear? Their kids were having a sleep over last night, wonder how that went? This goes on day after day...Meanwhile, what are we doing in our every day lives? The problem that occurs with our obsession with other people's activities is two-fold. We end up not doing much in our day to day except for the things that we have to do like take the kids to and from school, go to and from work, etc. because all the spare time we have we use watching other people. And the second downfall of all of this is we start truly believing that these people have much more interesting and much more impressive lives than we do and will ever have.
How about we make a change?? What if, instead of using all our free time to sit and watch other people live out each day, we take that time and live our days to the fullest. Instead of looking at other people thinking there is no way I could get to the place they are in life, I could never be as successful as they are or my life is never going to be fun like theirs...stop just watching, write down your goals and dreams and go after them! You are just as capable as they are. Stop and read that last sentence again. The only difference between you and them is they have searched out what they really want out of life and they are now following through with their plan to get there.
Now, I'm not saying you need to close all of your social media accounts and never watch anyone again...what I'm saying is that if you feel like life is passing you by, you wish your story was different and you would love to add more pizzazz to your days, then stop just watching and get up and start living!
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