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When social media highlights sacrifices you make for others

I watch Instagram stories of people partying without masks while I stay home with my immunocompromised mother and feel like I am missing my entire twenties

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Duty and desire battle in the arena of other people's freedom, making our choices feel like punishments rather than acts of love.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Social media — psychological effects?”

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