Shower Thought:
I’ve come to the realization that recently…not even recently, but in general, I feel like I’ve just been consuming way too much media. Now this isn’t a bad thing, but this also isn’t the most superficial best thing that’s going on in my life. However, at the same time, consuming media has altered my personality in ways that me just living my life really wouldn’t, in the case that others around have used such forms to express themselves as well. So that being said, you know when we think of media in terms of these past few years, we can think of certain news such as presidential elections, protests, etc. But when I think of media, I also think of very creative people that you would never just see on a random day walking to work. Sometimes I would be on my phone for eight to eleven hours a day. Other times it could only be four hours a day, which goes to show how much I really consume in that one singular day. So on certain days, I feel much more expressive and intuitive with my thoughts, yet for the rest, my forms of expression can feel like a comparison rather than motivation.
For example, Pinterest is one of my favorite apps. I get so much inspiration and plenty of motivation from Pinterest especially with what I want to do with my future. I could be scrolling through Pinterest for hours and hours and people around me may think like “oh you’re just looking through other people’s life, you’re not really using it for yours.” That could be true, perhaps in their minds; but for me, a simple pin to my “future career” board on Pinterest changes my perception of where I stand today to really, really manifest. The same as looking back five to ten years, what’s to come in the next couple of hours, you know? So to be fair, of course using your phone, your laptop, any other forms of digital device that can produce media can be unhealthy for individuals like myself, but that doesn’t mean that it’s useless.
Where I’m going with this is to say that for future generations, media can really be consumed in that you want it to. If you want to use it to cure your boredom, you an easy doom scroll can fulfill that. And that’s perfectly fine because that’s what you want (and need) for the time being. But as for myself, using media and observing how others have used it has given me ways to frequently style myself, improve my vocabulary, educate, and regenerate the losses I’ve felt days prior.
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