On social media everyone seems to have life more together than you.

Take this situation apart. Each piece goes in one box: yours, or not yours. There is no third box, and almost nothing falls in one piece.

Yours

How long you look and whom you follow.Comparing your backstage with somebody else’s front is a contest lost by everyone who enters it. The button to stop is not in the app; it is in your thumb.

Not yours

What others show.Their shop window, their best ten seconds, their holiday photo without the argument before it: that is their display case, and display cases show no stockroom. This part is not even accurate.
That the feed never ends.There is no final post after which it is finished; the stream is designed to keep streaming, by people whose job that is. Waiting for a bottom is waiting for something that was left out.

The reasoning. Their shop window stays lit day and night; whether you keep standing in front of it is the only question that counts.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.Marcus Aurelius

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