I check social media a lot. I check it for blogging feedback, for likes and comments and I check it for work. It's something I'm constantly connected to, whether it's my Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. I'm always checking it, even when I have nothing to check, It's kinda sad, really.
Do you have anything in your life that you wish you didn't really have? It may be a good thing, but slowly and surely it just seems to take over your life. For me, this thing is social media and the idea of always having to feel connected. Part of it is because it's my job to reply in a timely manner to inquiries we have regarding events at work, but the other part is just out of pure habit. If there's nothing to do, I check social media; If I'm walking down the hall, I check social media; If I'm trying to think of what to blog about next, I check social media (hence, this blog). It's become such an idol in my life, and I hate that. I hate that it's so hard for me to disconnect.
Social media has become the thing in my life that I wish I didn't really have because it's the thing in my life that steals away from so many other things in my life. It steals away from special moments because instead of just enjoying the moment, I become more interested in getting cool pictures to get more 'likes,' it steals away from my work because it's at such easy access while working at a desk job, and ultimately, it just steals away from my time. I spend valuable seconds, minutes, and in total, hours looking at it when I could instead be doing so many more productive things. Social media has made me anti-social.
If we're honest, I think we all have one of these things in our life that we wish we didn't have because it steals away our attention from more important things in life. Maybe it's a job, maybe it's a hobby or maybe it's even a relationship. Whatever it is, it's a thief, and it might be stealing from you. I'm being pick-pocketed by it day in and day out, but I pray that changes soon. I don't want my time here stolen from me, and neither should you.
-Cliff
Cliff's Note: We all have a thief in our life, but before we can catch it, we have to identify it.