IT'S A LIE

Let’s talk about what you see on the social media. Or better yet, what you think you see on social media. I would hate to break it down to you that most of what you see is staged just to impress. As you might have noticed, no one is poor on social media apart from those conmen who post pics of poor kids just to solicit money from unsuspecting social media users. Though am not saying that all those posts are from conmen, some are very genuine but you never know. Better be safe than sorry, just saying.

Most people on the social media like being on the spotlight but what they don't want to show you is that they are struggling behind those digital cameras they use to amplify their looks to look like someone who is already self-actualized. Now the trouble comes in with these innocent followers who like to compare themselves to the social media personas trying to copy their lifestyle. I would like to bring to your attention that no one ever posts his/her failures.

Most of these social media personas are living a lie and they'll make you feel like you have done nothing meaningful with your life. These are the kind of people who will take a hundred photos and choose the best of all to post just because it makes them look better than the other 99. This has provided ground for invidious feelings. The jealousy that a former colleague or classmate is living the dream life while you are just the same, not progressing or struggling to make it. This is the time when depression creeps in without you knowing that you are comparing yourself to a fake life that someone else is showing you.

So basically what am trying to say here is that, lets live our lives the way it is and not trying to be like a certain social media persona. You have no idea what these people are struggling with behind the camera, off social media. I have been a victim, I wouldn’t want you to be too.

Don't compare your behind the scenes with everyone else's spotlight.  What they are showing you is a LIE. Be the most of you you can ever be.

This is all staged to impress. you have not seen behind the scenes.

THE JOURNEY BEGINS

What better way to begin than taking a trip down memory lane to those days when we were younger. Life was very simple with no worries at all. You didn't have to worry about what you're going to eat or wear or how you look. You didn't have to worry about tomorrow coz you just lived in the moment knowing that someone is looking out for you. But then growing up came and ruined everything. Now you have to worry about how you look, what other people have to say about what you do; you worry about almost everything and that is when reality hits you hard and you just miss how fun and free your childhood life was.  You wish you could go back there even just for a day. So many things you could have done differently...even saying no to growing up if it was an option (I would definitely do that).
But since we're all grown up right now, we just have to focus on the here and now and let tomorrow take care of itself for if something is meant to be, it will be.

Am not a writer, but I can be a story teller. So come journey with me as I share real life situations that might inspire you in one way or the other. Just as figuring out that growing up has always has always been overrated.

Feel blessed.

This is as far as my childhood memory can take me.