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Dear Millennials

Dear Millennials,  (Those born in the 90s and early 2000s)

I was born in 1985.  I am part of a lost half generation, Generation Y, as it used to be called, shaped by the on spurt of the Internet and rapidly changing technologies.  I remember life without the Internet.  I remember life without smartphones.  I was in college when social media became a thing.  

I look at you and my heart aches.  You are a boat, adrift in the open sea with no anchor or guiding light.  You were thrown to the wolves with no sense of right and wrong.  You had social media accounts in high school and even some of you, in middle school.  I cannot imagine that type of world.  Adolescence was hard enough without it being displayed for the whole world to see.  Your self image was influenced by some many impossible standards and fake images that you began to think that was reality.  You aren’t even allowed to have an opinion because by having even one opinion, you offend someone.  You have unsustainable weights put upon your shoulders by biased media and false social media that it is a wonder you can even stand. 

I see you floundering in that sea and I’m so sad.  What has social media done to us?  We mistake information for truth and knowledge for wisdom.  We have no solid rock to stand on.  Our view of reality is so warped, that we don’t know what truth is.  Our world is so contingent on our latest post or how many likes we received.  What a heavy burden to carry.  You are not truly free to be yourself because you are inundated with impossible standards and images all day everyday.  Social media is toxic and creates a narcissistic view that everything you do needs to be posted.  Not only that, that everyone’s lives are perfect because that is what gets posted.  We don’t post the bad things, the real life things.  News travels at the speed of light with no time to actually fact check or see if the story is true or could possibly be biased.  There is no truth anymore.  Opinion has become fact and theory has become law and if you disagree, you are canceled.  

No one can live up to that.  No one can live under that pressure.  I challenge you to change it.  I have broken the addiction of social media and it is so freeing.  Instead of FOMO meaning the fear of missing out, I’m calling it the Freedom of missing out.  I don’t know what I’m missing out on and it feels incredible! I don’t have to constantly be comparing myself to others and feeling bad that I didn’t get invited to some party.  I am free to let my mind reason and think logically instead of being bombarded by biased and often false news and opinions.  I am not constantly afraid to walk out my door.  I am engaged with my family and those closest to me.  I am living my life instead of posting about it.  I have the freedom to have opinions that others don’t agree with.  I don’t care if someone doesn’t like me, I like myself.  

Get off the internet and social media and go search for real wisdom and truth.  Knock and the door will be opened, seek you and will find.  God is waiting for you, He loves you so incredibly much and created you special and unique for a special purpose and you won’t find it on social media.  Be yourself and not who someone wants you to be or some false image of what you think you should be.  


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