Is life constantly hard for you? Do you consistently deal with drama? Is turmoil a constant in your life?
Consider, not only your circumstances, but also what your mind feeds on. Your mental health and lack of righteous thinking may be due to your choice of entertainment.
Is the music you listen to negative with a theme of broken relationships, profanity, and/ or abuse?
Do you watch pornography? Do you binge watch media for hours a day from a streaming service or app?
Do the movies/ TV that you watch include the exploitation of women (nudity/immodesty), sexual abuse, or immoral sexual relationships?
Do you play video games multiple hours every day (either on your phone or with a gaming system)?
Does the "news" you watch include constant debating and arguments that are heated and loud? Do you enjoy watching talk shows that exploit broken situations and relationship?
Do you read books that would be considered pornography if they were visual?
Expressing emotions, communicating, and responding to people in relationships is a learned behavior. The more time you listen, watch, or read things that tell you how to do it improperly, the more you will live them out in your own life. Thus, constant drama ensues because we feed on inappropriate ways to respond.
For example, if you regularly watch soap operas, do not be surprised when your life becomes a soap opera with gossip, lies, marital infidelity, and division.
The people that seem to be having a good time on the beer commercials are actors and actresses. The reality is heartache and brokenness.
It's good to consider what your mind feeds upon. It might make the difference between joy and sorrow for your whole life!
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