Envy is Destroying Us

The media today is training us to commit the seven deadly sins, especially envy. It is everywhere, today its all about having the latest and best things, such as phones, clothes, cars, and any other material thing you can think of. Its driving all of us to have envy. To clarify, envy is when you want something that someone else has, and you do not want that person to have it. As far as media goes, social media is the biggest platform for envy. Many people scroll through Instagram looking at these picture of everyone and they see a car someone got or new clothes that someone got and they wish they had what they had. They wish they could be that person with the cool car or cool new fashion and not the other person. It is not just people getting envious, social media is a platform that people try to make people envious of them, which is just as bad as being envious, because you are now leading people to commit one of the deadly sins. We all do it, we all try to make our pictures look the best they can, or try to make sure our Snapchats perfect, make sure our Facebook posts make it appear to our friends and family that everything is perfect, when that's not always the case. We post all the new stuff we got or post things making it seem like we have the perfect life, and we have the perfect material things, or significant other, or brother or sister, anything. People see that and they think, "Wow they have it all and I don't, I want that, but I'm never going to be able to attain that. Why can't I be like them?"
 
The media is making many people feel inadequate. On social media you can do all kinds of things to make it appear that your life is perfect. On Instagram there are many different filters people put on their pictures to make them look better. Advertisements use Photoshop to create unrealistic pictures of men and women and they put these pictures everywhere, today we cannot get away from it. Envy makes us have feelings like the picture above. Today's world demands us to be something that is unreachable and to have everything. Its not possible. Social media has caused envy to explode, and the more envy there is, the farther we are away from God.