Reflection

Don’t Believe The Hype

It’s so easy to get swept up in a wave of emotion.

Looking at what others are doing and comparing

Starting to believing that you are somehow inadequate – 

That you should be more successful, richer, happier, prettier

You should have more followers on social

You should be promoted

You should feel more fulfilled

Living that perfect lifestyle.

If everyone else’s life is so great, then why isn’t yours?

As if to suggest there’s something wrong with you.

As if that’s some kind of secret

Not realizing – that there is something wrong with everyone.

You’re not perfect and you never will be; but neither will anyone else.

What you’re seeing, is others projecting, nothing but an illusion

A distortion of reality; 

Manufactured hype, to make themselves feel better

Nothing but smoke and mirrors, leading to a kind of hysteria.

A delusion generated by others trying to convince themselves of something

A fantasy, a story, to get you to drink the kool aid, 

Convincing you that they have the solution to all your problems

When the reality is, no one has the answer, we’re all just trying to figure this shit out

Doing the best we can with what we’ve got

So don’t go on believing the hype

Getting swept up in that sea of emotion

Unnecessarily beating yourself up, trying to live up to some kind of superficial ideal of what happiness is and what success should look like.

Because behind every photo, every video, is a person, just as lost and afraid as you.

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