Happiness

Daily Meditation 604–10/22/2023

I hate to break it to you, but social media done been lyin’ to you

Someone got married — happiest day of their life. Scroll…
Someone got a promotion — happiest day of their life. Scroll…
Someone had a baby — happiest day of their life. Scroll…
Someone got a new job — happiest day of their life. Scroll…
Someone got pregnant — happiest day of their life. Scroll…
Someone graduated — happiest day of their life. Scroll…

Maybe somewhere along the way, someone’s grandpa passed or someone had to put their pet down, but most of things seem so darned positive.

Social media has perverted our senses (literally, in some cases, with our dopamine) so that we have a much harder perceiving the reality of happiness.

That’s a bit of word-thinking, so let me explain:

Social media tends to heavily skew positive.

When we log onto social media, we are seeing through EVERYONE ELSE’S rose colored glasses. And that’s important to remember.

We “only” see all the positive events of everyone’s lives, so we think by comparison that our own life is somehow worse. That’s probably pretty silly. Unless you sleep under an overpass with…