Do it for you

Things that made me happy in the past day: Christmas Shopping in a mall. I never go to malls and they are just so warm during the Holidays and then also nice French toast dinner with some awesome people. (I know, not healthy AT ALL).

 

Something my Dad said the other day really made me think: that our generation is a bunch of narcissists. My first reaction was the obvious "What? No! I'm not a narcissist." And then I asked him to explain...we all use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Group text messages to communicate, share our thoughts, photographs and life events. Some of us more than others but either way, we always want (maybe subconsciously) people to know what's going on with us, whether positive or negative We take "selfies." We let people know what we did today, we complain and we celebrate. The more 'likes' we get on a status or photo, the better we feel about ourselves. Saying it out loud makes me feel slightly pathetic...

 

Bottom line is: we are constantly looking for our peers approval on who we are and what we do. We need that approval (whether we want to admit it or not) in some ways; we leave Facebook for a week and we feel 'out of the loop.' Is that a narcissist? Maybe. Either way, we need to be careful. Are we doing things that are true to who we are? Why do other peoples "approval" matter so much to us? When you are at the gym, do you need other's approval on your WOD time or the weight on your barbell? Probably not. Bring that into life. It's not about the posting of the pictures or the status, its about the reasoning behind doing so. Just like it's not about putting 125lbs on your bar, but its about whether you are doing that to challenge yourself or to be better or show off to someone.

 

What are your intentions?