New Year, Same Struggle, Different Response
I honestly sat down to write about my 2017. As I sat contemplating it, I scrolled through social media and read everyone’s thoughts on their year. One thought gave me reason to rethink adding my thoughts into the puddle of social media. Why was I going to do it? What was my motivation? To compare how seemingly rough my year was to others’. Instead of giving you a straight overview of my year, I’m going to share a struggle that I think we all face. Comparison runs rampant during this time and age. Laptops, Ipads, smart phones, and smart watches give us access to the internet, social media, online shopping, fitness gurus, and so much more. All of it is as close as our fingertips. There are a million different ways to filter and photoshop a picture. We re-write a caption over and over until it is witty and funny, but doesn’t sound like we are trying too hard. Nothing gets posted until it has been polished to perfection. Why? Because we want to put up a front of how we want others ...