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Sounds crazy right? Stick with me.
With social media addiction on the rise, we are seeing all of these influencers and self-help gurus make a fortune from it. They are selling all of you people these “rules” and “systems” to curb being addicted to social media. While, yes, they might have good intentions, that doesn’t mean their rules and systems will necessarily work. They are trying to solve the symptoms of a much larger problem. And that problem is what I’m going to discuss today.
I truly believe that we have lost touch with the true meaning of time; the finite boundaries that time holds us to are being completely ignored. You see, most people fear the word “death,” it makes them all sad or they get all worried about the thought of it. But I’m here to tell you that fearing death is perfectly normal and it’s also incredibly useful to the realm of time. Time is death. Without death, there would be no use of time. We would live each day in a continuous cycle from the last without ever looking at a clock (or smartphone.) While this theory seems nice, that’s just not how reality works: we are bound to time and space.
So what am I trying to get at? I’m simply saying that the fear of death is useful because it makes us appreciate each moment we have in this temporary body. If we know, and I mean really know (and understand) that death will meet us one day then WHY would we ever waste our time? Why would we continuously scroll through Instagram and Twitter seeking validation and praise from other people? Why would we be clicking on those square icons when any chance of boredom hits the forefront of our short attention spans? It just doesn’t make sense when the fear of death and the appreciation of time is in the equation.
Focusing on the very important (in our daily lives) is essential to what I’m laying out in this hypothesis. We worry so much about what could happen or what’s happening around the world — that we never pay attention to what’s most important in our livelihoods. It sounds selfish but it’s simply not: how could one be selfish if they’re trying, so desperately, to achieve the goals that God (or the universe) sent to them? These goals could potentially change the landscape of the entire world (or small communities.) But people don’t want to hear this. They want to receive rules and systems to change their habitual behaviors but there’s just one issue with that — identity change is most important.
I believe if we change our identity to someone who values time to its fullest then all the social media addictions would perish. And if we do decide to use it (which I think is important for the growth of humanity,) it will be used with great clarity, intention, and purpose. It will be for the greater good of our goals and the world. We MUST start valuing the sacredness of time again. Each birthday seems faster than the last because we are becoming more and more distracted with the things that have no intrinsic value to our life. By introducing the fear of death into the equation (without making it all morbid or whatnot,) I believe that our appreciation of time will start growing — and then we can finally beat that growing social media addiction.
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