Dear Pinterest,
If I had to define our relationship it would definitely fall in the love/hate category, I am sorry to say. I mean, I still keep your app on my phone, but let’s be honest, I don’t hit you up like I do Facebook and Instagram. I even spend more time with Buzzfeed and Twitter than I do with you. Recently, the only thing you have done for me is provide me with a few good recipes.
And of course sometimes when I am feeling inspired and want to get my life on track I revisit you. We spend a few hours together making far-fetched boards covered in healthy recipes and workout and fun activities, none of which I end up doing. You help me feel inspired but it never leads to anything.
On top of that, you make me feel like a failure. You dangle all of these fun easy looking crafts tempting me to try them. And I do I go out and buy the glitter and twine and paint and spend a few hours attempting to make this super simple mason jar vase or wine cork coaster only to end up covered in glue and tired with nothing to show for it and finding glitter in weird spots for days after. In short, you make me think I am cool and crafty when I am anything but. And let’s not get into the disaster that is anytime I try a nail art tutorial.
Now this isn’t to say you don’t have your uses and that we haven’t had some good times together. As I already told you, you are an excellent place to find recipes and store them. And you have given both me and my mom some great ideas for school dance decorations. My sister and I even use you to find new braids to try.
In the end, those few good and helpful things really outweigh the bad and that is why I keep you around. Or maybe it’s because I enjoy the fantasy you bring as I make impossible boards of clothing I could never wear or makeup I could never pull off. Pinterest, you keep me dreaming, and because of it I won’t ever be able to delete you. Well not until something better and more innovative comes along.
Sincerely,
A Quasi-devoted Pinner
