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like i remember in high school everyone would joke about others posting their lunches or whatever but oh my gosh i miss it. like now i feel this weird made up pressure of keeping up appearances (which may be all in my head), but i feel like it’s not enjoyable anymore, it’s more like an obligation to post on there? like i for one know i feel a little manufactured on there sometimes. again, totally probably all in my head lol. maybe i’m not finding the right words. i think i feel fatigued about it in general. this though is super refreshing.✿
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i’m definitely not the first person here to make a rec about this, but my tired brain is truly rejoicing. i have a very hard time completely leaving it since i communicate and share creative work through the app, but i think i’ve decided i will only be on it once a week or when i need/want to post. that’s all. as an already anxious person, seeing the same anxiety-inducing general information (as in something i could easily find on google or a news app) be reposted by 20+ people on their stories has become HELL, especially these last few weeks. not only that, but the constant push of personal opinions about such matters (even if i agree with them) just seems to warp your perception of people. maybe i’m just a wimp, but i don’t think humans were meant to see each other in such a way; we’re not so flashy and impulsive face to face. add the endless scrolling onto that, and it’s downright exhausting and kills productivity. there is so much more dimension and depth to humans and life than what is said or done or seen through this screen. can we please go back to flip phones?
Jan 31, 2025
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Lately I have been daydreaming about deleting Instagram, but everytime I get close to doing it, the same thing always pull me back.
I emigrated to London from Spain for university in 2017 and I haven't moved back since. The feeling of missing out on the goings on back home... It hasn't gone away.
Instagram has become my link to faraway friends. It's how I know when they change their hair, or get a new boyfriend, or get a dog, or break their ankle. Of course I talk to my closest friends now and then but converstaions can loose their informality when you don't see each other often.
The truth is that I don't want to have a deep conversation everytime I talk to friends from back home. The obligatory "How's work? How's your partner? When are you coming back? How's your mother?". It makes me feel that everytime I reach out to one of them they feel obligated to rattle through all these questions. I want to talk about stupid stuff, stuff that doesn't matter, what your Dad said, the fight you had with your sister, that weird thing you saw the other day.
On Instagram I can be a fly on the wall watching all that stupid shit they put on their story and feel like I'm still a part of their life and their a part of mine. But at the same time I know that these snippets I grab now and then are not connections of quality.
Does anyone else who moved away have the same feelings about social media?
Feb 14, 2025
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Was going through instagram stories for the first time in months. Nothing wrong with using social media in the right way or really however you want to. I just really don’t miss it when I avoid it and when I go back I like it less and less.
PI feels like an exception- it’s a much purer form. Not trying to kiss ASS here, but it kinda just feels like old twitter which was a happy place in the timeline of social media…
Mar 14, 2025
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i looove looking at people‘s notebooks and journals all scribbled out and lived in. i like buy a million notebooks and always think i’ll use them but really they’re just empty and stacked up in my closet. like have you seen some of these bullet journals and how artistic the formatting and pretty pictures and writing are?? it’s so creative, i think it’s hard for me to get things out of my brain and to like convey them onto or into some sort of material. my friend has the most beautiful writing i’ve ever seen and puts all of her thoughts into a journal and she thinks it’s completely normal whereas i think it’s something absolutely fantastic! it’s not anything less than extraordinary to me, i admire it terribly.
i don’t know if it’s my attention-deficit or my bp-2 but the follow through is the hardest part for me. i know there’s definitely some low-confidence and accountability involved on my end that get in the way but that executive dysfunction just does me in. thank goodness for my people pleasing ways, i rarely have issues doing things if it’s for others, i barely think twice, like no questions asked, i just genuinely want to make everyone happy. i’m also really bad at establishing my own boundaries lol.
but anyway!! journals and pretty writing and formatting, i love them so much.𐐪𐑂✿
Jan 27, 2025
Feb 3, 2025
it’s wet and hot and sometimes when the light shines through the window it creates mesmerizing ripples. i also have a disco ball planter in here that i definitely don’t hate. thank goodness there’s natural sunlight in this bathroom, i’ve lived in so many places without it and it feels almost like a luxury now✿ also there’s a shelf i rest my head back on that my cats like to lay on
Jan 27, 2025