Can we be honest with ourselves for a moment? I want to talk about some things. Things like Facebook. Twitter. Instagram, perhaps. Hell, even Tinder…anything that lets people advertise who they are (or at least who they want to be) without having to concern themselves with the real world.
Yeah, I know.
It’s not easy to examine one’s self. We’d all much rather be judging someone else. But right now, let’s do the hard thing and focus the lens introspectively.
Sure, it’s easy to look on at the spinning wheel that is social media, watching as the people we know and grew up with move on with their lives. Comparison is the theif of joy, ain’t it? That’s what they say, at least.
It’s funny though because everyone’s aware, whether consciously or subconsciously, that social media is just a highlight reel. If only we knew who we all are after each one of those many layers of social graces and obligatory formalities got peeled back. The real, you know? Because as much as we market how cool our lives are, at the end of the day…it’s validation that we really want.
Most of us, that is. And you know what? That’s perfectly normal. Not at all a thing to be ashamed of.
After all, most of us just want someone who knows us. Who understands us. Who IS us. We want to enjoy life with a person who gets, more so than anyone, who we truly are. And I’m not talking about the person at three o’clock, bringing in coffee with the same fake grin we all wear knowing we’re just waiting for the hour hand to get knocked ahead a couple notches. I’m talking about the person we are when the day’s facade is over, the candles go out, and the door closes. That person you see when the ambient light from the TV flicks on as it highlights the it-was-a-long-day-fucked-up-hair and feetie pajamas silhouette. That’s the person we’re searching for.
And you want to know something? I bet you’ve already met them.
I know I have.
How the World Should Work 
Great description to define who we are. From awakening to going to bed and from all day and night thinking and searching not to know what has been happening around us but to try to tell what we want to like and love, i think, it’s our desires and thirst of the peace of mind and heart. Solacing themselves and then following that way which more twinkling in the social media Bazar to be liked and commented because of the weather of thoughts. In a year to be here, I learn many things that I didn’t get in my previous life. I love this world of authors and friends who always are in the search of new ideas to write, share, and to be read here. I like your every post and poem, book and story. You’re a kind man to share beautiful movements life’s truths. Brilliant idea 👌👏👏
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