https://medium.com/lifestyledesignmag/but-are-you-living-your-best-life-off-instagram-8a91176b556a
Best life off of instagram?
The little trivial things we often take for granted are actually shown to give us more fulfilment than the 'big things'.
Little things:
- sunlight in the morning
- walking a dog
- having a beer and a laugh with close friends
- playing a game
People seem to rely too much on the idea that New Years Eve is a new start and the only appropriate day to make new resolutions, we should see each day as a chance to begin again and follow through on what you said you would do. Instead of balancing those needs out to hold onto our desires, we sacrifice what is most important to us in oder to make ends meet on a day-to-day basis - existing, but not living.
Busyness is not a way of life.
Busyness is a prison that we create for ourselves - a real life of value. We can justify telling ourselves to shut-up when we push aside our awareness of how we're actually unhappy with the way of life we've settles into.
The snapshots that are on instagram are like underlines parts of our stories, not the full chapters. We all want different things out of life - don't waste what the Universe is offering you now for the dopamine-rush of getting something you've always wanted to in the future.
Make a conscious effort to heighten you awareness of the good things around you now and you will get close to where you want to be in the future by creating a solid foundation of gratitude from which to build from and make the moment you achieve those goals even more satisfying - you have learned how to live happily without them.
https://graziadaily.co.uk/life/opinion/heres-life-like-without-social-media/
What life would be like without social media
A massive part of our lives - why are people quitting it?
Instagram it or it didn't happen - we express ourselves in 140 characters or less and showcase what we've been up to with the neat confines of an Instagram square.
We take pics and make it look a little better than it actually did and watch the likes rack up. There seems to be a number of studies that suggest that social media is making us miserable, anxious narcissists etc.
A lot of people are choosing Snapchat and Instagram over Facebook and Twitter - are things becoming more about capturing moments than sharing 'what's on your mind'?
Jenny, 27
Jenny quit Instagram and now she feels as though she has a better relationship with her phone and it is not the firs thing that she looks at in the morning or the last thing at night. She also says that she feels like she's more present because she doesn't constantly photograph everything, trying to get that perfect drunk selfie.
Mark, 28
Mark has never had Instagram so someone in the first week of uni made it for him but he never really used it. He says that everything seemed a bit exaggerated and everyone seemed to be an exaggerated version of themselves. He scrolls through his phone a lot less than his friends, but they all share his point of view.
Hilla, 25
‘There’s something I find a bit irritating about Instagram’, she says, ‘just the way that people now have to take photos at every single dinner that they go to, plus the whole selfie thing – selfie mania – which I think is so unhealthy.’
‘When I see people travelling alone, pouting and taking selfies in front of the fountain or whatever, I do kind of feel like there’s a pretence there. In order to take the selfie, there must be something lacking from your present situation, like are you lonely and seeking some kind of validation from the web?’
https://mashable.com/article/katherine-ormerod-why-social-media-is-ruining-your-life/?europe=true
If you prefer the instagram version of yourself, read this book ...
"My instagram story persona could not be further from the real me"
The difference between these two identities became the source of anxiety for her that summer, worrying if people will be disappointed when they see that she is not as fun as he instagram self. One in three young women feel a pressure to portray their lives as 'perfect' on social media, according to recent research by Girl Guiding.
"I truly feel that social media is only representing the rewards without showing the graft that goes into getting to that place," says Katherine Ormerod
"How close is your online identity to your offline identity? Are you merely tinkering with the digital version of your life, or is it pure fiction? Take a long, calm look at what you are curating online and be honest with yourself," reads the book. "Does it feel like hard work to keep up the pretence?"
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