The modern generation became so addicted to social media. We spend a lot of time on social media than anything. Social media is a human invention that must be dominated by us, but it dominates most of us right now. The advent of smartphones made it easy for many to access social media and these social media follows a reward system that is when you are rewarded with something you feel good because of dopamine released in your body. Such good feeling takes you back to social media again and again and makes you addicted. It acts just like a drug where you will lose control over yourself. This social media which is virtual and unreal that became a part of life where people started not only using it more but believing it so much even though it’s harmful. But they aren’t ready to accept the truth because of their addiction. The invention of social media made it possible to communicate easily, but it also brought several problems to mankind. Social media addiction is the reason you are considered as a slave to it. This social media dominates you and affects you in several ways. It takes away your valuable time: Your addiction for social media makes you spend more time on it, and this makes you lose your valuable time. Instead of using your time well on things that matter, you will spend it on social media watching everything that comes in your social feed. You are also bombarded with several ads that are intelligently tailored for you by accessing your demographics and psychographic. This makes you buy things even though you don’t need them and make you lose your money too. It fills your mind with clutter: Social media is filled with so much information. When your addiction is too much, you keep filling your mind with all the useless information which makes your mind a trash bin. This results in damage to your thinking and analyzing process and makes you live in confusion all the time. You will have knowledge that's useless. Your mental health gets disturbed as you are filling your mind with too much information along with the junk. It makes you feel anxious and fills you with worry: This social media addiction can make you feel anxious. Just remember the last time you got a notification on your phone saying someone like your post or commented on your post. I hope you felt anxious and opened your account to look who liked it and what is the comment. This is the reward system for the social media implemented in its algorithm to make you addicted, and that’s how they make money and make you lose your money and time. This anxiousness makes you feel good when rewarded and then leads to expectations in you for more likes and comments where you will be disappointed when you don’t meet expectations. This way your mind wants others to like you and you start doing things that you never want to do. You start trying to impress others which may make you lose yourself and put in in worry mode. It corrupts your belief system: You believe everything about someone’s life, which is mostly a lie on social media. But you never believe someone who did great in reality. This is sad. You can’t appreciate someone in reality, but you care about someone in virtuality. Whatever you see on social media isn’t true. Social media platforms are the channels where fake success and achievements are shared more to make people believe that they are successful even though they are not. It isolates you: You share more on social media, but you share less when people are with you. You chat for hours on social media, but when you meet them, you won’t even talk properly. Your direct communication gets damaged. Even though you are with your family and friends you still feel alone because you keep spending time on social media on your phone or laptop. Even most times you find that others using the phone. When you really talk to others directly, it’s different. You really share and you really care. When you meet someone next time try spending time just with them not with your phone and see how amazing you can build strong connections. This social media addiction is evil. Use social media in a limited way for limited purposes. Don’t get so addicted to it. Don’t care for likes and followers. Don’t care for fake news. Don’t compare with others' lives on social media. Just use it to find some pleasant news and information. Use it to communicate with the ones who are on interminable distances but make sure you communicate less. Turn off your notifications and uninstall the apps that are taking away your time. Make sure you dominate social media and don’t allow it to control you. Use social media when needed and make sure you are not using it too much and here is a final tip: Never use your phone for social media when you wake up and make sure you put your phone aside at least before an hour before you sleep.  Subscribe to The Mani Belde's Show on Soundwise

“Life teaches us some valuable lessons and even death has some great lessons to offer which you can make use of when you are alive. These lessons are not just lessons. They are the ultimate truths that will fill you with wisdom.” In Hinduism, the dead body, or death or burial ground is treated as inauspicious. So you are not allowed to attend any funerals if you don’t know the dead ones very well. However, we can attend these funerals secretly. Such instance taught universal lessons for life. We all celebrate the day we are born. We celebrated the day we are born every year. But you need to understand that even death should be celebrated more than your birthday. Your birthdays come and go, but death comes once and gives you freedom forever. Mortality is not a curse, but it’s a glorious gift. This gift frees you from all attachments, greed, pain, suffering, and worries. No one wants to die and everyone wants to live forever. But this won’t happen. Human advancements in science and technology created pain relievers, but they didn’t overcome death. This death is a common destination for all of us. Everyone knows about death but everyone lives by ignoring the truth and this is a gift and a curse. Ignoring that you will die is a curse if you are wasting the time in dwelling and suffering in life. Ignoring that you will die is a boon if you are making use of your time well. These lessons are the ultimate truths which by realizing will change your perception of life and make you think about your life again. Subscribe to The Mani Belde's Show on Soundwise

You come across different instances in life. Some instances make you happy and some instances make you sad. Many care about these happy and sad feelings and they react to these feelings. But they forgot the valuable lessons that instances are trying to teach you. Sometimes these lessons are taught to you, but you ignore them. But never do this mistake. You may have skipped several lessons by ignoring them but never be late to learn these 7 lessons that I am going to share now.  https://medium.com/@manibelde/never-be-late-to-learn-these-7-lessons-for-life-c23f2c6560c2  Subscribe to The Mani Belde's Show on Soundwise

“Remember these 7 things to avoid in your life and this solves almost every problem and worry in your life. It will make your life simple and gives you wisdom for mental growth and success.”  https://medium.com/@manibelde/7-things-you-should-never-do-6dd2bfb90505  Subscribe to The Mani Belde's Show on Soundwise

“Nobody wants an uninteresting life. An interesting life will make you joyful, hopeful, and fulfilled. There are some sure ways which will help you make your life interesting and fruitful.”  An interesting life helps you do more and live more. It helps you spread happiness and joy around you. It gives hope to you and others. It helps you conquer your suffering. It helps you live a life of fulfillment. So the question is, how to make life interesting? These are a few ways that work well to make your life not only interesting but also these ways teach you the experiences and lessons for a happy and wise life. Follow these simple ways and have fun.  https://medium.com/@manibelde/how-to-make-life-interesting-4ba39f44cda1  Subscribe to The Mani Belde's Show on Soundwise

“Not all relationships last forever, and this is very painful. But the wonderful thing to appreciate is these failed relationships teach you lessons which are valuable and very important for your life.”  These are some top lessons that you need to understand and make use of them in your life to prevent suffering and become wise enough to handle any relationship failures that may happen in your life.  https://medium.com/@manibelde/top-lessons-to-learn-from-failed-relationships-c201d820ede7  Subscribe to The Mani Belde's Show on Soundwise

“Simplicity is what keeps you stressfree. It adds happiness and peace to your life. Simplicity helps you live a minimalistic life. It helps you save money and time. It helps you become productive, successful, and fulfilled.”  https://medium.com/@manibelde/how-to-simplify-your-life-a2a5a71c56cb  Subscribe to The Mani Belde's Show on Soundwise

“Even though money can do several things. There are things that money can’t buy. Money is a human invention but there are several natural creations that man invented money cannot create or control.”  https://medium.com/@manibelde/5-ts-money-can-t-buy-b54e985719a2  Subscribe to The Mani Belde's Show on Soundwise

“You would have loved someone so deeply at first but as time passed and you got into a genuine relationship and living with them together. You may find that you don’t love them the same way or your love may have been fading day by day. There is a reason why this happens to most people and the good thing is there is a cure for this.”  https://medium.com/@manibelde/why-does-the-same-love-%EF%B8%8F-doesnt-exist-after-getting-into-a-relationship-cb1b2e9ccbe  Subscribe to The Mani Belde's Show on Soundwise

“Relationships not only give you happiness but they give you pain when not handled and taken care of them properly. Your behaviour and habits dictate the happiness and sadness you get from your relationships.” https://medium.com/@manibelde/7-habits-that-can-destroy-your-relationships-90a7e2698c25 Subscribe to The Mani Belde's Show on Soundwise