Matzav Inbox: Is This How You Want to Be Remembered?

Dear Matzav Inbox

I hesitated to write this letter, but I can no longer sit idly by as I witness the tragic waste of time and life that is unfolding before our eyes. People are literally throwing away their precious days, weeks, and months, sucked into the abyss of useless WhatsApp groups filled with nothing but utter nonsense.

At worst, these groups are breeding grounds for lashon hara, rechilus, and perhaps avak lashon hara. Words are exchanged that destroy reputations, spread rumors, and create division, all while its members sit behind their phones, with no awareness or care of the harm they are perpetuating. At best, these groups are little more than platforms for pure idiocy and time-wasting banter, laced with the occasional tidbit of so-called “news” – much of which is neither relevant nor true.

Let’s be clear: This is a disgrace. A disgrace to our time, our values, and our dignity. Is this how you want to spend your life? Wasting away in empty chatter and gossip? Is that the legacy you want to leave for your wife, your children, and your mishpacha? To be remembered as the person who was always “in on the hock,” who squandered hours—perhaps years—of his life with nothing to show for it? Do you truly want that written on your kever, the inscription that you spent your days plugged into these meaningless distractions, never once reflecting on the precious time you could have used to better yourself, your family, or Klal Yisroel?

The sad reality is that many are so deep into these groups that they cannot even see how utterly ridiculous it all is. The lack of embarrassment is staggering. How do you not see the harm, the time lost, the self-respect you have given up? The idea that you can spend hour after hour involved in such ridiculous nonsense without feeling any sense of shame or regret is simply beyond me.

It’s time for a wake-up call. Time to stop and ask ourselves if this is really the life we want. Ask yourself: Who are you? Who do you want to be? What are you actually achieving? What are you doing with the time Hashem has graciously given you? Is this the legacy you want to leave for your children, your community, your family? How do you want to be remembered?

We are all guilty to some extent, but at some point, enough is enough. It’s time to take a hard look at our priorities and ask ourselves: Are we really living the life we were meant to live? Or are we letting it all slip away into the abyss of the digital nonsense that surrounds us? We all have the ability to do better, to aim higher, to turn our time into something that will matter, something that will endure.

Do it. Get rid of WhatsApp. Leave those groups. You’re better than that.

Achar meah v’esrim, you don’t want to be seated with them.

Enough with this disgrace. Enough with these wastes of time. Stop, reflect, and change. Before it’s too late.

Sincerely,
A Concerned Member of Klal Yisroel

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