Photo: Dr. Ekrah Ndung'u is the Chair, KENAPCO
By: John Kariuki
Social media can make people feel like their life is stuck whereas it’s just their journey’s season.
Dr. Ekrah Ndung’u Chaiperson Kenya National Association of Private Colleges (KENAPCO) took a moment to share with us some Monday motivation: Her word of advice revolves around the influence exerted by social media.
“Social media got pressure. Your self-esteem and mental health are your responsibility.”… Sometimes scrolling all the pages and wondering if your life got a handbrake. A polite reminder, people rarely post their failures or their pains. Before branding yourself a failure look back and be grateful that you got breath…that’s one great achievement that you’re not gasping your last breath…a lot of people are lying in hospitals, ICU, HDU gasping their last breath while you’re here being remorseful on what people are posting looking like an all rosy life. Social media is choreographed to show our best self to people who don’t know us in person…it’s just a sad generation with happy pictures online. Others are even going to an extent of faking their lifestyle – posing with high end cars, trending fashions, etc. Cultivate spirit of contentment be happy with your life as you work towards self-improvement daily without lowering your esteem because of pressure from strangers you see online.
Every stage in life can be an adventure, pick lessons from each stage. They’ll become a life manual for someone else. Your life lessons can be documented into a survival constitution for other people.
If you didn’t make it in your 20s you can make it in your 30s
If you didn’t make it in your 30s you can make it in your 40s
If you didn’t make it in your 40s you can make it in your 50s
Sanders of KFC made it in his 60s
Late President Kibaki became President in the 70s & in a wheelchair after attempting many times; he launched this country to a lifetime memorable legacy.
Grandma Moses a prolific painter made it in the 80s.
Stay consistent keep doing what you’re doing without getting distracted by other people’s lives. Never give up & never arrive.
This advices includes our university and college students, we’re in a PR generation, they end up engaging in vices so that they look good on social media.
It’s more important to look good in person and be happy in person than trying hard a showbiz while dying of depression offline said Dr Ekrah
Have a great start to a new week.”
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