I forgot that I was going to write about this. Yesterday in Relief Society we were talking about God's love for his children and our different talents etc.
Quotes from the gospel principles book read, "Joseph Smith taught that 'every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was [fore]ordained to that very purpose'. However, everyone on earth is free to accept or reject any opportunity to serve."
"We were not all alike in heaven... We possessed different talents and abilities, and we were called to do different things on earth."
The topic of comparing ourselves to others around us came up and all I could think about was blogs. Blogs are such an easy way to compare our lives with other lives. However, blogs are typically fantasy. Does anyone ever really say that they live a horrible life? For the most part, NO. Most posts are about exciting, fun, happy, etc. things that people have in their lives. I think this is a false idea about life. We all need to know that great things do happen, but we typically all have bad days. (We just never tell people about them.) It is easy to compare ourselves to someones perfect life, but we need to remember that it is probably not perfect.
Billy Elliot - A dance for the senses
6 years ago
2 comments:
So true. People edit themselves so much in blogs. And when you compare your worst to somebody's best, you're obviously going to lose.
Interesting point. I agree. I think this happens on other forms of social networking media like Facebook as well. People upload pictures of all these awesome places they visit and things they do. If you were to spend enough time on there, you may begin to think your life was boring.
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