What we put on social media is what we want others to see. We don't want people to see the not-so-good side of our lives. We post about our vacations and our big accomplishments, but we don't post about a breakup or losing a job. We compare our real selves to the romanticized version of someone else that we see on social media, and that's just not realistic.
When we post on our Instagram feeds or our Facebook pages, we post the good in our lives. We post the edited version of the pictures. We all want our life to look as glamourous as possible, but at the end of the day, that's just not reality. Even the people you think are the happiest, usually aren't. There's a side to everybody that they don't want you to see, whether that's being stuck in a toxic relationship, going through a breakup, or gaining weight, that's the part that's hidden from the internet.
As young girls, we all sit and wonder why we don't have clear skin or a flat stomach like the models we see on Instagram. I'll tell you why. That's because it's edited. It's fake. So many young girls struggle with body dysmorphia and self-esteem issues because of constantly comparing themselves to the fake and edited versions of people we see on social media.
Even in the gym community, we all pose and flex super hard and edit those pictures to look better, right? I have noticed more girls in the gym community shedding light on this and showing the reality of what their bodies really look like unposed, and I think it is super relieving to see. I think it's nice to see that the influencers that we look up to are actually just as imperfect as us because at the end of the day we are all human.
A lot of pictures that we post are so heavily edited because we romanticize our lives just simply for the "aesthetic". Instagram and VSCO are apps that are notorious for this. I'll be honest, I'm also guilty of doing this. I also sit and edit my pictures to make them look more "aesthetic".
This is just a little reminder that not everything you see online is real. Stop comparing yourself to those Instagram models with flawless skin and perfectly flat stomachs because it's not reality. Remember, we don't show others when we're three weeks into a depressive episode and haven't eaten. Remember, we're all just humans trying to figure out how to live our lives and nobody is as perfect as they like to portray.
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