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<blockquote data-quote="stevevw" data-source="post: 77631360" data-attributes="member: 342064"><p>Getting down on yourself and feeling hopeless sometimes is a human state that we all can experience in varying degrees. There's many factors involved at the individual, family and societal levels. Family has a big influence, the bonds and relationships with have with our parents. Temperament also has some influence such as being introverted or extroverted, happy or ambivilent disposition.</p><p></p><p>Of course society. I think this is the biggest factor as to having a negative influence because basically this is all about outside expectations as to who a person should be like and these can change all the time and become unreal quite often. I don't think social media helps because though it can be great to connect with others it basically is an ideal platform to create unreal worlds of expectations such as with influencers. The one thing in common is that its all about others telling you how you should be.</p><p></p><p>You can change the other influences like individual and families influence by choosing do change what you can change within your own world you create within a society. If the people around you have a negative influence you can change it to positive by associating or connecting with positive people even if thats a church or a mentor or good friends. If you have personal issues you can work on them and feel better about yourself. </p><p></p><p>But its hard to change society and the world around you so we can't ever meet those expectations. Societies expectations are harsh, unreal, and will never be good enough. Its a false measure of what really counts because it only sees the outside personification of people and not what really counts in the spirit.</p><p></p><p>So we have to learn to look at God truth about who we are being all made in His image and are all equally His children. That true peace and happeness comes from storing up your riches in heaven and not in this world. That this world only offers a false way, truth and life and only in Christ are we measured as all being the same whether free or slave. </p><p></p><p>I like what Jordan Peterson says in his 12 steps for life about self worth. We should never compare ourselves to others because we are not others. To be a better person we need to compare ourselves with who we were yesterday.</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]baRi8wPIhss[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stevevw, post: 77631360, member: 342064"] Getting down on yourself and feeling hopeless sometimes is a human state that we all can experience in varying degrees. There's many factors involved at the individual, family and societal levels. Family has a big influence, the bonds and relationships with have with our parents. Temperament also has some influence such as being introverted or extroverted, happy or ambivilent disposition. Of course society. I think this is the biggest factor as to having a negative influence because basically this is all about outside expectations as to who a person should be like and these can change all the time and become unreal quite often. I don't think social media helps because though it can be great to connect with others it basically is an ideal platform to create unreal worlds of expectations such as with influencers. The one thing in common is that its all about others telling you how you should be. You can change the other influences like individual and families influence by choosing do change what you can change within your own world you create within a society. If the people around you have a negative influence you can change it to positive by associating or connecting with positive people even if thats a church or a mentor or good friends. If you have personal issues you can work on them and feel better about yourself. But its hard to change society and the world around you so we can't ever meet those expectations. Societies expectations are harsh, unreal, and will never be good enough. Its a false measure of what really counts because it only sees the outside personification of people and not what really counts in the spirit. So we have to learn to look at God truth about who we are being all made in His image and are all equally His children. That true peace and happeness comes from storing up your riches in heaven and not in this world. That this world only offers a false way, truth and life and only in Christ are we measured as all being the same whether free or slave. I like what Jordan Peterson says in his 12 steps for life about self worth. We should never compare ourselves to others because we are not others. To be a better person we need to compare ourselves with who we were yesterday. [MEDIA=youtube]baRi8wPIhss[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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