I’ve had my fair share of the goods, bads, highs and lows of social media platforms. In the end I had to quit it altogether for the sake of my mental and emotional health.
It all became so ‘toksik’ when I began to constantly compare my behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reels. It became a competition of how much better than the last person I can do something.
GET ME OUT OF HERE! I HATE IT HERE!
My closest friends know how insecure I became the past 2 or so years. All because I compared my physique and lifestyle to IG babes, celebrities and even my followers.
I felt insecure of my body the most, always looking for “quickest ways to get a snatched waist”. Honestly the toxicity was taking over me...
I had to be strong mentally to recognise the problem. And when I did, I had to escape this fantasy toxic world and get back to reality. The toll it was taking on my self confidence, esteem and emotional stability made me call it QUITS. I have ZERO regrets.
Nowadays I am much more satisfied with life and people around me. I’m more aware and satisfied of my surroundings and life. I recognise that I missed so much while trying to keep up with social media.
I encourage everyone to take the chance, enjoy life more and live in the moment!
With love,
Tarie Speaks
Im really enjoying and relating to these. Loving the consistency❤❤❤
In the laws of human nature (book) it talks about the power of face to face connection that is needed to stray from deep narcissism to empathy. We are being raised in times where everyone is so focused on the outside looking in and being judgemental of everyone else that more and more young people are lacking the empathy needed to connect with each other. Through empathy we understand others but because people rarely share thier 'downs' through social media its hard to have empathy.