Spoiler Alert: this post is gonna be nasty.
Pictures are lies. They are what you want yourself to see. Not what it really is. Yes, a pictures speaks a thousand words but if one picture is a lie, those thousand words it translate into is also a lie.
For example, look at the picture above, that is a picture of my back. If you don't know how I look, you would perceive that this back belongs to someone with a certain kind of face that you would think suit that kind of body when in reality, it belongs to the little old me. Your mind wants to believe something else when in reality, it never is what your mind wants it to be.
Which brings me to my topic for today, I call bullshit on Instagram. I understand that Instagram is an outlet whereby you posts pictures and memories for your keepsake however, I've been encountering with a phenomenon which I like to call as the "fucking stupid obsession".
It almost always begins with stalking which then leads to admiration. Don't get me wrong, I stalk all the time and I too, admire countless of people on Instagram. Which in my opinion is a great thing. Admiration leads to a lot of positive things such as inspiration, motivation and whatever it is you wish. But after a while, those admiration has the possibility to turn into obsession where the stalker starts claiming that so-and-so's life is so perfect and the stalker wishes *her life to be as perfect as those pictures she double taps on her Instagram feed.
*I am using her because I prefer "her" as a pronoun as opposed to "him". I am not claiming that only girls do this sort of thing. Boys are just as bad.
I have one thing to say to these stalkers with fucking stupid obsession, those pictures you see and claim as the "perfect life" on your Instagram feeds are not real. Yes, they are not real. Well, maybe they are but those are the pictures or moments in a person's life that they want to show. And those pictures are not even a fraction of their lives. Nobody wants to post a picture of themselves throwing a dirty dish at their significant other with the caption, "I am living with a fucking pig. LOL #mysignificanotherisafuckingcunt" right? What you are dreaming of does not exist and it will never exist.
So, my advice to those of you who are currently succumbed by the idea of someone that you follow on Instagram is living the "perfect life", please focus on your own life instead. You are the main character of your life hence, make it so. Make your life what you want it to be, not copy someone else's nonexistent lives.
Instagram is a great distraction in our humdrum everyday lives but it is not meant to be an obsession. I feel sorry for those who are dreaming for the perfect life for the perfect life never even thought of you.
l8r.
Jaz.
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