If you follow me on Instagram I did touch on this subject last night on my story but definitely have some more points to say about it.
I am starting to see a definite trend and hope it continues to go 100 kilometres a fucking hour in this direction over the next 50-100yrs.
Mental health in regards to social media and keeping up with the Jones’ has become a fucked up issue over the last 10-15yrs and how more could it be evident with the amount of suicides in young people.
The majority of people, young and old who believe they can’t talk about the internal battles they are dealing with because they are seeing the surface life that influencers are portraying and believe to be like them they must be having good days everyday, purchasing the best of everything and never having a bad day.
The hard truth is some days are fucked.
That leads to my comments last night on creating a narrative of someone else life that simply isn’t true, you believe “if I have X amount of money like that person I will be happy” “if I was just a little taller I would have a better life” “if I was able to have my dream job everything would be okay”.
The reason these theories don’t add up is simply all you need to do is ask someone who you believe to have the “perfect” life and they will begin to let you know about their own external and internal battles, whether physical, mental or emotional.
A small change that has recently occurred across Instagram was the getting rid of Instagram LIKES which I think was good in theory but really people know what a lot of likes are and they can still see their own likes, resulting in this knowledge that has been ingrained in all of us over years isn’t very easily reversed.
I’m not going to sit here writing that I know the answer to your problems, we are growing up in societies that award 10th place ribbons which has made us weaker in dealing with adversity and not getting our own way.
Somethings I would really recommend doing for yourself as an individual though is make sure you are hanging around with the most positive people you can. Have the conversation or simply get rid of those toxic people, those old school friends that have put you down and not encouraged you for years, the family members who said you wouldn’t be able to do it. Put yourself out there. Be a person that encourages people to go for it in what they TRUELY LOVE, be that person for your partner, friends, family without the worry of what other people will think about it.
Be fucking BRAVE.
If you feel like this message could be heard by others be my guest and share this, whether it is a screen shot to your social media or just forwarding the message, help make a difference.
Logan.