We all seem to constantly advertise our lives.

I do. With social media, it seems to be a constant updating and maintaining of my digital life for all of my friends to see. It's amazing what we're all able to share and experience with each other over the internet. It's a part of what I am doing now with this blog post; writing it and posting it online for you to read.

Whether it's a status about how boss we are for cooking an awesome dinner or a post of pictures we took at that *insert title* 5K that we just ran, we want to advertise these things about our lives. Don't get me wrong. These are great things to enjoy about life. And it's okay to celebrate these things with friends.

How many of us feel though that the lives we're advertising online are better than the lives we're actually living?

It's a whole different experience to eat a chicken dinner by yourself in your room with your cat than to post a picture of that same dinner online and get twenty instagram likes. The second option is a bit more gratifying. Having people like that picture makes you feel affirmed and therefore feel like your life is way better than it already is.

But what if your life is already better than the one you have online?

It's fine to share pieces of your life online. To an extent. When you start focusing more on how many people like your status than how you're actually enjoying the real moment you're in, then you're not really living a fulfilling life. You're just living a life of online advertisements. I'm completely guilty of this. There's plenty of moments where I constantly check my phone and wonder how many people like my new profile picture. But I don't think God brought reality into existence just so we could focus our lives on daily selfies. And of course, His affirmation matters infinitely more than someone retweeting your hysterical rant about last night's "The Walking Dead".

There's more to life than how our day is advertised to everyone around us.

Instead of always posting a picture of how awesome our dinner looks, why not just eat it and enjoy it in that moment? I don't think the food will taste better by getting more instagram likes.

Start enjoying your life for what it is instead of focusing on how many likes your advertisements rack up.

What we advertise to others should be an afterthought, not the forethought to our lives.