While it was not completely apparent at the time, I always knew that my attitude and frame of mind changed depending on the type of environment I was in. After I saw Minnie Driver’s video, it put a lot of things into perspective.
When I was younger, I had a really bad habit of assimilating my personality to the nearest group that would accept me into their circle. For over half of my life, I wasn’t me. When looked at from a global perspective, I think it’s a problem a lot of people have because, as human beings, we always have a longing to be accepted. This is an issue that, in my humble opinion, the media loves to capitalize on. Social media, in my own personal experience, has been extremely toxic to my opinion of myself over the course of my life.
I’m 5’11 and I weigh 130 pounds. If you’ve never seen me before and you know simple proportions, you know that that makes a two-by-four with arms and a big head. It is physically impossible …show more content…
For a number of years, I was in a constant state of self-harm because I was in the mentality of, “It’s your fault that you don’t look like that and here is your punishment”.
What the video brings to light, I thought, was wonderful. The media can have a big impact on your sense of self-worth, but so can your attitude. If you can will yourself to have a sense of self-worth completely independent of the influence of social media, you will see an immense shift in the quality of your life. That was one of the big lessons that I learned from watching the video. Well…that and Minnie Driver can’t act, but that’s another paper in and of itself.
I think the bottom line for me is that, in the beginning, media controlled my life in every way shape and form. The key to combating was being able to shut that particular influence out and focus of what I thought of me and, more importantly, what God thought of
When I was younger, I had a really bad habit of assimilating my personality to the nearest group that would accept me into their circle. For over half of my life, I wasn’t me. When looked at from a global perspective, I think it’s a problem a lot of people have because, as human beings, we always have a longing to be accepted. This is an issue that, in my humble opinion, the media loves to capitalize on. Social media, in my own personal experience, has been extremely toxic to my opinion of myself over the course of my life.
I’m 5’11 and I weigh 130 pounds. If you’ve never seen me before and you know simple proportions, you know that that makes a two-by-four with arms and a big head. It is physically impossible …show more content…
For a number of years, I was in a constant state of self-harm because I was in the mentality of, “It’s your fault that you don’t look like that and here is your punishment”.
What the video brings to light, I thought, was wonderful. The media can have a big impact on your sense of self-worth, but so can your attitude. If you can will yourself to have a sense of self-worth completely independent of the influence of social media, you will see an immense shift in the quality of your life. That was one of the big lessons that I learned from watching the video. Well…that and Minnie Driver can’t act, but that’s another paper in and of itself.
I think the bottom line for me is that, in the beginning, media controlled my life in every way shape and form. The key to combating was being able to shut that particular influence out and focus of what I thought of me and, more importantly, what God thought of