Recently I decided to delete social media from my phone. You know Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook and what I found was definitly not expected. Almost even a little upsetting.
Although deleting Facebook and Instagram had their own impacts on my life, story for another time. It was the effect deleting snapchat had that suprised me the most. I realized after a couple of days that I was starting to have more self confidence in my physical apperance and I realized that this was because I was no longer looking into that distorted camera picture of myself a million times a day. They say that if you look in the mirror for an excessive amount of time you actually start getting a distored picture of what you look like. I believe that this is what was happening to me.
Not only was it the excessive amount of time I was spending looking into that camera reflection but the idea that I should or even needed to use filters every time I sent a picture. This idea that you need to look perfect or that you should weirdly pretend you are anything else but you are is what made me feel lost, unlikable, and even ugly.
The really sad thing is these days Snapchat is such a normal thing that we don’t even think to consider that maybe its the reason you need that validation from the one night stand, or to pile on make up just to feel like the person people expect you to be.
Be you. Being you is more than enough.
Holding on to Love 