Looking on Instagram and Twitter we always manage to come across a picture or a page that makes us dislike our lives. There are always retweets and pages dedicated to “goals” that people think they want. Like body goals, relationship goals, fashion goals, etc., the list is virtually endless.
We are genuinely unhappy with the way we are and where we are in life. People see these images and feel as though they aren’t good enough, they’re not pretty enough, they’re not wealthy enough, they’re not happy enough. They feel as though they just aren’t enough.
Why are we so obsessed with being people we’re not? With trying to live a life that is almost clearly not for us? Why are we obsessed with the Instagram famous couple that travels all over the world?
Why can’t we just be content with now? Who we are now. How we are now. What we are now. Which is enough. It is the place we are meant to be in.
The entire world and it’s events conspired in order for us to be where we are now - whether that is at a school thousands of miles away from home, or in a 9-5 job that you hate, or in bed. It is exactly where you’re meant to be.
People are so unhappy with themselves and their lives that they forget to be grateful that they’re even breathing. We forget that we’re young. We don’t need to have everything figured out. We don’t need to have the life that others have because chances are they probably think their life sucks too.
We envy those people with the picture-perfect life but forget that it is just that – picture perfect.
Not actually perfect.
People choose to show you only the good aspects of their lives and not the negatives; which is what society is obsessed with. The picture-perfect image is what we think we need to be happy.
In order to be happy, people don’t need to be in a relationship, they don’t need thousands or millions of dollars, they don’t need the life that the Instagramer has. Today’s society is so hell-bent on being perfect and having the perfect life with the perfect outside image that they forget that people are fragile creatures and they freak out and have mental breakdowns, not everything is rosy all the time even though the media paints it that way.
It’s okay to not have it all together. It’s okay to not have the perfect body. It’s okay to be in a relationship. Just as it’s okay to not be in a relationship.
We’re young. There’s no rush to have it all together. There’s no rush for relationships, for marriage, for children, for 9-5 corporate office jobs, for the perfect set of abs.
Get on a train and go somewhere. Throw the rulebook and the iPhone out the window. Get lost but don’t freak out, rather enjoy it. You may never know where you might end up. You might actually end up loving it and finding happiness and contentment along the way.
