I have carefully curated social media accounts. I don’t follow people based on their celebrity, how many followers they have, or likes they get. I follow based on their content. It basically has to be informative, inspirational (all things creative, for me, falls in the inspo category), or funny.
I don’t like it when people are constantly promoting things. Like if your account feels like an infomercial, I’ll unfollow. If you use your account to constantly talk bad about people, I’ll usually unfollow – I’m all about positivity. And I especially can’t stand, on Instagram, when somebody’s account is filled with too many selfies. Like I don’t care what the caption is, if all I see is your posing face in every picture that makes its way to my feed, I’ll unfollow you.
Because of that, what I have created is social media feeds full of faith and food and future goals. I look at house tours on YouTube, I follow entrepreneurs on Instagram, and activists on Twitter. While most of the time this leaves me inspired to do something like try a new recipe, get home décor ideas, or learn more about a cause, other times these very same things serve as vivid reminders of what I don’t have.
Like most days I could watch house tours on YouTube and be inspired by the floor plan or the décor and think to myself, “I’m going to have a fabulously decorated house that I’d love to show off someday.” But then there are other days when I look at house tours on YouTube and the only thing I can think is, “Damn, I don’t have a house.”
It’s like the same thing that inspires me can at times be a painful reminder of what I haven’t achieved.
And…
I had a point to this which now escapes me. Oh well, if it comes back to me I’ll revisit it. For now I’ll just sit for a minute, fascinated by this duality.
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