I’ve been off of social media for two months now and I honestly do not miss it at all. I do not miss seeing random updates of an acquaintance whom I barely care about,I do not miss comparing my life to everyone’s highlight reel and I just don’t miss keeping ‘up-to-date’ with people’s lives on social media. 

If I wanted to know how my friend is doing,I will call them up or meet with them the last thing I will do is go on social media. Then I realised how anxious I used to get about not posting a new photo for some time,I used to think shit,people must think that nothing interesting is happening to me oh and shit,people must see me as irrelevant.It was sad and pathetic of me. 

Let’s be honest,how many times have you planned an outing or an outfit just so you can show it off on social media? I love dressing up even before social media exists but I realised that then I have done it for the wrong reasons. And for what? For people who do so little for me,for fake validations and fake love mostly. 

I might go back on social media,but only if I had the right intention. I am trying to be that person my younger self needed or just that person my current self needs. And it’s not who I have presented myself to be on social media in the past,only posting photos where I looked good for further validation and just posting every single thing on my story so that it looks like I’m having a ball.

I love and appreciate my small circle of friends who genuinely cares about me and that’s the only social I need in my life now.No hate to those who uses or loves social media,hey I love it too. But I just know that it can’t be good for our anxiety so remember to filter the accounts you follow and remember to post with the right intentions. At the end of the day,it’s only your self-validation that matters. Lots of love to everyone