no time, fake anger
social media sets bait
but I will not bite
The Apostle Matthew wrote, ‘For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also‘. Matthew 6:21 (NIV).
I put forward that where your anger is, there your mind will be also.
In the grand scheme, there isn’t anything wrong about.
I should be angry.
I should have things in my life that I believe in enough to get angry.
Recently I noticed that my life seems to be filling up with a different anger.
An anger that rather than built up by me was manufactured by someone else.
Too often I trace the source of the anger to something I saw, read or heard about online.
Again, nothing wrong with getting angry about something you find out online.
BUT if the purpose of what I saw, read or heard about online was to get me angry?
Who is in charge here?
I have said so often that there is nothing social about social media.
Too much anger.
Too much hate.
In the early days of chat rooms, I liked to post witty-pithy comments about football teams until I got someone to respond to me.
And the response I was hoping for was an angry response.
I had found a way to make someone else angry enough that they were going to TELL ME.
Once that happened, I would log out with a feeling of just accomplishment.
I don’t have time for that anymore.
I have enough anger in my life to not need to be manipulated.
I get angry thinking that I was manipulated in the first place.
I don’t have the time.
I don’t have the emotional rope.
Most of all, I don’t have the anger to spare for such nonsense.
Drop all the bait you want Mr. Social Media.
I will not BITE.
Hear I stand.
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