Have you ever looked down your Instagram timeline and suddenly felt bad about yourself? You see all this people living their life to the fullest. They seem to be rich, fun and successful. Mostly they seem to be happy. In your eyes, their life seems perfect. Everything. They seem to have everything you lack.
Everyday we see people who seem to have a perfect life. A perfect body, a perfect face, a perfect relationship or a perfect job. Everything seems to be perfect because all we see is pictures and videos of them.
And then, we have to turn into reality and feel bad. Because unfortunately, our life isn’t perfect. Our life isn’t anything like theirs. We start to feel like a failure and unworthy. We compare our world, the reality we live in, with a world that doesn’t even exist. This world is called Social Media.
Every day Social Media kills our happiness. It’s like a competition, but we are the ones who lost since the beginning. You know why? Because we think social media is reality. We see a perfect picture, but we never think about behind-the-scenes. We forget that there are hundreds of attempts behind each picture and life is much more than just a picture.
We literally forget how easily it is to fake a smile. We forget that pictures get edited. We forget that not everything gets posted.
We believe this lie called social media and in the end we are the ones who suffer the most from it.
We need to learn that there can be perfect pictures, but there’s never a perfect life behind those pictures.
In the end, Social Media just provides us a world that doesn’t exist. So we should stop spending more time on there than reality. Because happiness can’t be found in pictures or videos. Happiness is never available if you keep comparing your life to the life others have.
Start living your life. Start dressing up how you like, start doing the things you like. Start going after your goals, and start surrounding yourself with positive vibes and positive energy.
Stop giving your power, time and energy to Social Media. Because the longer you do, the less happier you will be.
Great writing. I agree to this. To some extent, social media is bad if you lose control.