Hi guys,
I hope this finds you all well.
Aren’t you ever fed up with all the bullshit? Fed up with pretending that “life after baby” is full of unicorns and rainbows? That you don’t, sometimes…just sometimes, want to throw your tantrum throwing toddler down the F’ing stairs? Wouldn’t it be easier if you didn’t have to pretend that your body doesn’t feel like it’s not yours anymore? That those stretchmarks aren’t really “tiger stripes” and that you sometimes wish you didn’t have them?
Maybe even that life is not all together as well you make it out to be on Facebook, twitter etc?
Wouldn’t life just be easier if you just cut out all the everything-is-rosy, photoshopped Insta bullshit and just said “actually, this really bothers me today”?
Now don’t get me wrong; I’m not saying we should all turn into whiney little things that don’t just crack on with life but it would really help if we could cut out the nonsense.
Only if I cut out the BS in my life can I focus on what’s important. If I pretend that my life is one big amaaaaaaaAAAAAaaaazing journey all the time I don’t focus on the things I need to get on with. If I can’t be honest about the things in my life that are not 100%, I can’t improve them.
We life in a time of “Insta”, there’s a lot of filtered and photoshopped bullshit about and I’m thinking it’s not really helping anyone.
I had an email from an “Insta-influencer” the other day. This is someone who posts hundreds of pictures and videos online and makes a very decent living out of “being healthy and well”. She’s also struggling with Diastasis Recti and severe backpain but can’t say that online because that’s not what she’s selling. And she’s really struggling with that. The toll it’s taking on her mental health is really quite a price to pay.
I’m not judging her btw. I know that she is a genuinely nice person. For her, Instagram is a sales tool and I hope she makes a good living out of it. But the difference between a BMW dealer feeding me lines about “his cousin who has the same car and loves it” and her is that, she’s selling an idea of her life. And that’s very difficult to then snap out of as you have to sell that all the time. Especially when the consumers start to believe the hype.
I don’t really believe the BMW dealer so why would I believe the Insta-model and then be upset when they are “exposed” as not always 100% being what they say they are?
Everybody filters their life to some extent, just don’t believe everything you see online and please stop dancing a little bit every now and again. You don’t need to and you’ll feel better for it.
And, just between us, I don’t believe you anyways 🙂
Take care,
Peter
