Welcome to virtual reality!
Here you can be anyone you want to be. You can portray yourself as whatever you want others to believe you are. You can care deeply, share authentically, say and be all the right things.
I think sometimes the world of virtual reality, this world of blogging allows us to live in the pretend world my children so love to play in. The world of make believe.
It's not so different from that world that exists in the offices where co-workers who don't really know each other begin to connect and develop relationships...before long, thoughts like..."wow, they are so friendly" or "they really listen" or "they really understand me" are stirred and people play a game, a game of make believe.
These are the perfect environments. Environments for inauthenticity. Environments to play make believe. Environments where appearances thrive.
I've been accused of being many negative things in my short blogging carreer. I've been seen as being righteous and good as well. The truth is, from my words, there's really no way for anyone to know. They're just words and opinions and ideas...those who agree like me, those who don't...we'll they don't.
So, why am I saying any of this anyway? No reasons except to say...in a world where it's easy to play make believe...to live lives behind masks and pretenses...when you create a medium that makes it easy to further live in that world of make believe....It's easy to fall into the trap!
Be yourself! Be the you God created you to be! Share the things deep in your heart, but don't follow the temptation to be someone you're not. Or as Paul says, to think more highly of yourself than you ought.
Be real on this journey!
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