In scores of interviews for this article, just the mention of social media elicited groans and sighs from young parents who are barraged by handmade birthday invitations and color-coded clothes-pin chore charts on Pinterest. They debate whether Facebook or Instagram is "the hardest," whether it's the images of the home-cooked organic feast or the just-cleaned house. It helps only a little to know that people are being highly selective about what they share. "Someone will put out there, 'Oh, I just braided my child's hair.' But you just yelled at them like 50 times to sit down," says 30-year-old B. Marcell Williams, a mother of four living in St. Louis.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi said:
ReplyDelete“Of all the virtues we can learn, no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life, than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.”
SOURCE: Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life (chapter 2, page 8) by Eric Greitens (Navy SEAL), year 2015 CE, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt publishers.
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