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I’m Happy for You (Sort of..Not Really) Review and Giveaway
Let’s be honest for a moment: we all get jealous of others. This can happen even when we are happy and genuinely love the person whose fortune was changed. We live in a “brag and show off” type of world. The worst culprit of this behavior is social media and seeing everyone else’s good luck and perfect life.
The problem with showcasing a perfect life is that people do not have perfect lives. If we are truly honest most people live paycheck to paycheck, rent their homes, and rely on a 2 person household income. Sadly these facts will be absent on social media and in holiday letters. People only show the image they want people to perceive as reality. This can make friends and family think that all is perfect despite the reality being less than perfect.
Jason and I talk about this “new reality” quite often so I was thrilled to be given the opportunity to read Kay Wills Wyma’s new book I’m Happy for You (Sort Of…Not Really): Finding Contentment in a Culture of Comparison.
I’m Happy for You (Sort Of…Not Really): Finding Contentment in a Culture of Comparison explores the obsession of social media comparing in our culture. When we compare ourselves to an image we see on a screen two things occur, the first is that we are not getting the entire pictures and secondly we are making ourselves miserable and sapping contentment from our own lives. Using humor and candor, the book explores this obsession.
The main theme of the book is to be happy with who are and what you have. I love that there are main points at the end of each chapter that encapsulate the chapters main message. This book is 231 pages that will get you thinking about how social media is effecting your life and provides assistance to see beyond the superficial to the reality.
I’m Happy for You (Sort Of…Not Really): Finding Contentment in a Culture of Comparison would be a perfect book for the millennial generations and beyond. This book helped me reaffirm my feelings that social media is taking over our lives. I often see my high school “friends” and wonder how they ended up with such magical lives, and I realize it is magical because it is a façade much like magic is. When we drop the façade and stop making thing look magical, an amazing thing happens – we find the magic in ourselves.
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Everyone opinion on everything
that people comment too quickly without thinking through negative impacts of their comments
Negative comments and people sharing too much information about their lives that should be kept private.
I find the most annoying is people believing things and putting them on that are not true.
Relative anonymity gives people the courage to rudely insult everyone. So many inappropriate comments.
This sounds really interesting. I have been aware of this for a long time so I rarely feel jealous of others who “seem to have it all”, but I often feel like I should be doing much better than I am, and I would really enjoy learning from this book.
That once something has been posted it can never be removed.
I find it annoying that nothing is private anymore!
How it blows little things way out of proportion! Things that normally nobody would care about – like the Starbucks Red Cup fiasco!
The online bullies who hide behind anonymity. They’re really just cowards.
I agree! It is easy to be mean online, even easier to be nice!
One of the most annoying things on social media are the people who want to argue every little thing if someone else posts an opinion or article in opposition to their viewpoint.
My husband runs into this often on the Charger forum/Laker Forums. He told me some story tonight that because he correctly told an admin that he was in fact wrong, that he could be banned? My first thought was how pathetic to get banned for being right!
friends posting pictures of everything – especially ones that I’m in and they don’t ask my permission first
KC
I find it annoying that nothing is private anymore
The fact that we’re slaves to it