Under The Surface #1 - Social Media

Hi Beauties!

Today is an really exiting and a really relevant blogpost. I'm going to start a new series that's called "Under The Surface" This one is going to about social media. 

Most of you has probably heard about Essena O'Neill by now. Somebody finally said it: "Social media is not 'real life'" And that is so true. We only upload pictures of us having a good time, travelling, eating good and healthy foods or uploading that hella good selfie, where you've been taking about 100 other ones to get one you thought was worth putting on the social media. Is that real life? No. Real life not always like that. But we don't want to share our real 'woke up like this face' or our cup noodles that we made for dinner, because we just couldn't bother to do anything else. What I'm trying to say is that social media is NOT real LIFE. Social media is trying to make the idea of the 'perfect life', like you have to look like this or that, and you've got to travel around the world, and eat at restaurants and drink at cool coffee shops at least once every week. Some people might get to live like that, but it's not that many people. And it may seem like they have a perfect life, but in reality, nobody has a perfect life. Just like Essena O'Neill, people thought that she had the perfect life, but in reality she didn't eat for 24 for a bikini photo. And she wasn't happy anymore. This is a proof that money doesn't buy you happiness. She had enough money, because of her Instagram. But she couldn't do it anymore, she wasn't happy. 

 The only way you can have a perfect life, is by accepting yourself, your surroundings and your life in general, with all of it's ups and downs. Hate to break it to you, but that's reality.  

So next time you see a picture of a girl with abs, or a girl a really good butt. And you think "I want to look like this" remember; You can work for it. But you can't look like the girl on Instagram. Because she has been taking 78 pictures before this one, trying from different angles, with different kind of lighting. And maybe, she haven't been eating for 24 hours. + some editing. And your body is your body, and not hers. 

So remember social media is not real life.

Read more about Essena O'Neill here

Thanks for reading. 

Love Thea L xx