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They say that you should follow
and chase down what you dream

Everyday. High School Musical 2

I began this blog about 8 months ago.

It was created for sharing things God’s put in my heart and I wanted to say.

It was exciting. It was new. It was fun.

I felt thankful if someone made a comment or shared it somehow. Every encouragement meant the world to me.

I think out of the need of promoting the blog (I say “I think” because I don’t remember clearly now), I began to be more active on Social Media, you know, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

My community needed to grow so the things I wrote could reach more people because, really, who publishes something so nobody sees it?

That’s how it all was for a while and I was enjoying myself. For real.

Then, it all changed. I did not even realize when or how, but it did.

All of a sudden, “how many likes” and “how many followers” were all that mattered. It was not fun anymore. It was work.

Hard work.

I wanted to be more and more noticed. I wanted the popularity. I wanted the fame. Perhaps, I was always looking for it.

But if you get lost and lose yourself,
what does it really mean?

Everyday. High School Musical 2

I got to the moment when I felt so frustrated because I was not getting the same good results I had had before. I got desperate.

I felt I needed to do something to fix it so I began posting things just because. I had to be present, I had to get likes even if there was nothing I wanted to share, I had to do it.

It’s crazy, I know.

Then, for some reason I suddenly came to my senses.

A friend asked me: “Why do you want to have more followers?”

“Because I want others to get to my blog”, I lied.

Truth was I had no idea anymore. I forgot why I wanted it to begin with.

At that very instant I got a look at myself and, honestly, I did not like what I saw.

It was as if I didn’t know myself; like I sold my very soul for followers.

I think about it now and I can’t fully grasp how come I was so blind. I didn’t even notice what was happening to me, how obsessed I was.

I couldn’t recognize myself any longer.

I understood the whole purpose of Social Media is showing who you really are. Likes and followers should be the result and not the motive; otherwise, you will probably lose yourself for the sake of pleasing others.

It’s not I don’t want people to like what I do, but I also want to enjoy the process and to be faithful to who I am.

I belong to God, not to others’ likes.

So, basically, I’m in rehab right now, haha.

I don’t want to be a slave of Social Media. I want to be God’s slave.

If my life is remembered for something, I hope It is for more than how many followers I had.

Hopefully, God will lead the journey for me to do just that.

If you’ve felt a bit identified with this whole thing, then let’s pray for each other that we can make our voice heard not matter how many likes.