Create your own masterpiece

If someone were to tell you right now that you should delete all of your social medias right now because it would benefit your life greatly, how would you respond? Most likely, your answer, along with most, including myself would be no. But why? It’s just an app, just a small icon on your phone screen. An icon that you visit more than you visit your parents, more than you eat, shower, and even go to the bathroom. I challenge you to take a moment every time you open an social media app each day and ask yourself, why? Why do I want to be this certain way, why do I want to get the most likes, why do I want to go here, do this, see that? The answer is simple. You want to be that way because that person with all of those likes is that way, so if you are that way, you will get all of those likes too. Maybe this will be true, but what is a like? To like something means to enjoy it, are you actually enjoying it and interested in it or are you enjoying the like that you receive from others, others you may have never met or seen in your life. Or others that like your post, the one they are so interested in, but when they see you in person they wouldn’t dare to say high or mention that post because they would be weird and awkward. Were they actually even interested? This all goes back to the question, why? Why is everyones lives so public, to get likes, likes that don’t have any true meaning at all in the real world, or even meaning at all. Instead of letting social media define you, define your own world.

How many times have you thought to yourself, “I have always wanted to do that, to be like her, to go to that place, to drive that car, to look that way”. Maybe you follow that really cool girl on instagram that you would trade places with at any moment because they are pretty, or they go to those cool places, but why? What makes those places cool, or that look cool. Do you actually want to go there? Or is that just what you see day in and out on your snapchat or twitter feed. You ask, everyone is doing it so why aren’t I? Take a moment, sit back, and truly think about what you want to do, what you like. It is one of the hardest things you could be instructed to do because in reality it is hard to answer that question with your own mind. Our minds are so controlled by all of the information and pictures and people we see every single day. Then lies the question, do we do what we want to, or do we do what everyone else does, therefore we should do? Sit down and think of the last time you truly had the urge to go somewhere or do something in some way that was not at all influenced by anything that you saw on a social media or that someone told you to. When was the last time you took time to sit at peace and originate your own thoughts, derived from nothing but yourself?

Close your eyes, imagine that you have never experienced the society you live in every day. You were just dropped off here one day never seeing anything like it before. Not knowing what technology, social media, or even fast food was. Seeing screens that seem to hypnotize the watcher as if nothing around them has any significance at all. Small devices in the hands of everyone constantly gaining there full attention, almost seeming to control them. Pictures, signs, billboards of people being a certain way, acting in similar ways to attract a smile of the viewer, or maybe a tear for some purpose of attention. Distractions coming from everywhere, representing how one should look or feel or dress. Signs, commercials, ads, telling you what is good or bad or how you can be successful. Pictures, pictures of you, the best you, the prettiest you, to get the most attention, the most likes, the most friends, to be the coolest. Everyone and everything except your own self telling you how to be. Almost as if our mind is a pencil, a pencil that could create a picture of anything you could ever want in the world, draw absolutely anything possible, however all you have is a computer, and you simply can not draw on a computer with a pencil. All you can do is look at pictures and imagine drawing them, but if only you had just a blank piece of paper, you could create a masterpiece. It is simple, line by line use your pencil and create your masterpiece.