.....how did something that was designed to connect ppl end up so toxic for so many???
social media is great, and i obviously use and appreciate it. it’s become so normal to compare your whole life to somebody else’s on instagram though. do you know what i mean?? like why do we almost instantly compare our ENTIRE lives to a FRACTION (barely) of somebody else’s life; what they choose for people to see on socials. it’s a craziness because the majority of us literally do the same thing: post our best bits on socials, make ourselves look more put together than we really are, and live the rest of our complicated, sometimes messy, lives without sharing them with everybody.
i read somewhere that comparison is the killer of happiness, and it’s definitely true. if you compare yourself to someone you consider ‘superior’ to you (they’re not) on socials and hurt yourself and your ego in the process, then the only thing that’ll make your ego feel fulfilled is comparative superiority: when you see yourself as better than other people because you see the others as inferior. neither can ever lead to happiness; comparing your life to others’ and feeling fulfilled and happy, i believe, are mutually exclusive; somebody’s always gunna have something you don’t. and that could be a good motivator for some people, which i think is a good thing. but we shouldn’t be comparing our whole lives to others’ if the only outcome is feeling less worthy, which happens a lot on socials because, like i said, we only show the highlight reels of our life. practicing gratitude has really made me appreciate my own life much more, while making me less bothered about others’ opinions on my life. the grass is greener where you water it!!!!
comparison via socials is such a pointless game and such a waste of time and energy and it’s one of the things i’m tryna weed out of my life for the future. what are your opinions on socials and their potential to be toxic?
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