The Like Complex.

Doesn't it feel good to get likes on social media? It does for me. I take a cool picture, and upload it to Instagram. I post a super funny one liner to Twitter and Facebook, and sit back to wait for the likes to swarm in.

But sometimes that doesn't happen, and when it doesn't, it kinda becomes a downer of a day.

This is what I like to call the Like Complex. When you get a bunch of likes on a certain post, you're on top of the world. Then you post another update, and it doesn't get as many likes or comments, it drags you down. Social media gives us, at one point or another, a complex. The more likes we get, the more popular we are. The less likes we get, we think that people don't care.

The fact of the matter is, that isn't true at all.

In Romans 8:5-8, it says this:

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Likes are nothing but an ego-booster, and they mean absolutely nothing in the long run. If we get to absorbed in the things of this earth, we will lose out on what truly matters.

Jesus Christ.

So don't post stuff just for the sake of a pick-me-up, don't post just for the sake of attention. 

I know this is something that every one of us needs to work on. 

Even me.