{"id":69925,"date":"2024-03-08T16:53:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T09:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alternatech.net\/?p=69925"},"modified":"2024-03-08T16:53:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T09:53:01","slug":"truly-happy-people-dont-share-every-good-moment-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/truly-happy-people-dont-share-every-good-moment-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Truly Happy People Don\u2019t Share Every Good Moment on Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Truly happy people don\u2019t spend their time trying to prove that they\u2019re happy\n
As I said above, truly happy people aren\u2019t really concerned with proving to the world just how happy they are. Instead, they\u2019re soaking up every brilliant memory, because they know life is short. Let\u2019s look at two scenarios and I think you\u2019ll see what I mean.\n
Imagine that there are two moms (we\u2019ll call them Betty and Veronica), both on a cruise with their families. Today, they\u2019re both spending the day docked at an incredible beach with crystal blue waters, a place they\u2019ll likely never get to visit again.\n
Betty\u2019s story\n
Betty gets off the boat, and snaps a few pictures of her family with a cheap disposable waterproof camera before they dash into the water. She left her phone in her cabin on the ship so she wouldn\u2019t have to worry about it getting wet.\n
Throughout the day, she builds sandcastles with her kids, laughs as they splash her, oohs and ahhs over a pool of vibrant fish swimming past, and so on. The bottom line, she\u2019s having an amazing day making memories that will last a lifetime.\n
Every now and then, she takes the cheap camera out and snaps a pic. That night, she collapses into bed, exhausted in a totally good way from the spectacular day that she had with her family. Five years later, her kids are still talking about what a great day that was.\n
The disposable camera is in a drawer somewhere, forgotten, but the memories replay like movies in Betty\u2019s head every time she thinks about them.\n
Veronica\u2019s story\n
Veronica spends the morning before leaving the ship making sure her phone is fully charged, her kids are in their cutest bathing suits, and her hair is photo-ready. When the boat docks, she makes her whole family line up for a \u201cbefore the beach\u201d shot. \u201cLet me just upload this to Instagram,\u201d she says.\n
Her family anxiously waits for her to finish so they can actually get off the boat. Finally, they\u2019re on the beach, but only after Veronica took about 500 more photos. After all, it takes 100 shots to get one good one, especially when your toddler won\u2019t be still because she just wants to play in the sand.\n
The water beckons and her older son can\u2019t wait to jump right in. Not so fast, little Archie! Mommy needs to take a picture of you running into the water. Don\u2019t look so posed! Look like you\u2019re excited! No, not that excited! Stand still!\n
Every single moment of the day continues much like this. Veronica doesn\u2019t let her kids splash her, because that would mess up her hair. She can\u2019t actually go in the water because she doesn\u2019t want her phone to get wet. She missed the pool of fish because she was taking a selfie.\n
Throughout it all, she\u2019s posting away on Instagram and Facebook, making sure the world knows she\u2019s having a blast.\n
That night, she overhears Betty talking to her kids. \u201cRemember when that fish that looks like Dory swam past and everyone ran to see it? Or when the whale jumped out of the water in the distance?\n
Oooh, or when the\u2026\u201d She hears Betty\u2019s family recounting the entire day and wonders, \u201cWhere was I? How did I miss that?\u201d Five years later, she barely remembers a single moment of that day, even when she\u2019s looking at all the pictures.\n
Human connections matter more than social connections\n
First, when I say that human connections matter more than social connections, I am NOT saying that you can make genuine human connections on social media. I have friends who I\u2019ve never met in person who are just as important to me (and I to them) as people I\u2019m close to in real life (Or IRL, as the cool kids say. Do they still say that?).\n
However, happy people understand that just because we have 900 \u201cfriends\u201d on Facebook doesn\u2019t mean we have 900 \u201chuman connections.\u201d And just because 1,000 people \u201clike\u201d our latest vacation photo doesn\u2019t mean that 1,000 people genuinely care about us as real people.\n
I would much rather have 3 people who deeply care about me (and vice-versa) than 3,000 Facebook friends who don\u2019t even know who I am beyond \u201cOh, I think we were in a blogging group together once!\u201d\n
Happy People Know That Life is About More Than Just Our Highlight Reel\n
Steven Furtick said, \u201cThe reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else\u2019s highlight reel.\u201d Or, as someone else put it (not sure who), \u201cOne reason we struggle with insecurity is that we compare our real life with selective content shared on social media.\u201d\n
Both authors were speaking in terms of not using others\u2019 social media posts as a way to judge your own life. However, I think it also applies to what we\u2019re talking about there.\n
If you constantly share JUST your highlight reel, you\u2019ll start to feel like you HAVE to have highlights to share. Instead of just living your life and loving all of the small moments that make it so wonderful, you\u2019ll constantly be chasing the next big thing to add to your highlight reel. Does that make sense?\n
Spend less time taking fake pictures and more time making real memories\n
The point is when you\u2019re spending all of your time making sure to frame up the perfect shot to show everyone how amazing your life is, you miss an awful lot of really amazing stuff.\n
I\u2019m not saying that you shouldn\u2019t take photos at all. Of course, you should! It\u2019s fun to look back through old pictures and share memories with each other. I\u2019m also not saying that you shouldn\u2019t share happy moments on social media.\n
I\u2019m just saying that you miss A LOT when you\u2019re looking at everything through the lens of a camera (or the screen of your smartphone), or when you\u2019re constantly trying to impress people who don\u2019t even know you.\n
So take a few impromptu (and totally unposed) shots here and there for posterity\u2019s sake. Then ditch the iPad or put your phone away and join in on the memory-making. You\u2019ll never regret it, I promise. And that\u2019s definitely something that truly happy people have in common\u2026no regrets!\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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