I'm going to go ahead and say it: Instagram is probably the only place where you can be happy 24/7. Or at least appear to be happy all the time. After reading Katy Bellotte's blog post on the topic, I am going to advise you not to take everything you see on Instagram to heart. It's the curse of the millennials; it's made us overthink captions, filters, the bane of our existence...yeah, we overthink most things.

Don't get me wrong, I love Instagram. I can post whatever the hell I want on there, which is why I choose to only post the best moments of my life. I don't want my account to be like a therapy session where I vent about all of my problems and complain nonstop. Absolutely not! I want to inspire people and promote positivity, so that's what my account is for.

Of course, once you decide to showcase the good over the bad, it can look like your life is a freaking vacation. Mine's not. I post lots of pictures from my trips, sure, but you'd never be able to tell that I'm actually juggling a part-time job, managing a million projects and attempting to give advice to my friends all at the same time. I'd rather not have everyone know that my life is a hot mess sometimes. It only makes sense, right?

Quit comparing your life to someone's Instagram feed. It's unrealistic to compare your life to overly saturated photos of foreign places. With the utterly large amount of photos I have from Europe, I could practically pretend that I live there. That's how deceiving Instagram can be, I'm telling you.

Let's take it for what it is. Let's remember that the people behind these photos are actually just like us. The difference is that we don't see them crying and eating ice cream alone in their apartment; we see them in low-cut dresses partying at 2 AM. We don't see them spilling coffee all over themselves after they've taken an artsy picture of their latte. We don't see these things because we'd rather not let anyone know that they even happened in the first place.