You realize you're an adult.
In many ways your decisions have fewer consequences (they tend to have less options) and in many ways they can hurt you for years instead of months.
The decisions become harder.
How you handle even just the day-to-day becomes a dilemma.
Selfish is sometimes the way to go. But when?
Rising above. Taking the higher ground. It's often the best way.
But when do you break?
Seems it all floods you in a few seconds.
That moment sucks.
As far as I'm concerned, Selfies are stupid. I was gonna say pathetic. But stupid seems more appropriate.
No matter your age (sort of), you've probably fallen prey to Selfies. Whether it be because you've had to see them or because you've posted one.
Regardless of why you've fallen prey, I feel an apology is due because of my generation. We are pathetic losers. Period.
Senior year of college, I would have been utterly appalled. And at the time, my biggest issue with social media (based on studies) was basically that it took the personal out of communication like a self checkout did at the grocery store.
It's gone far beyond that. FAR beyond that. And I am not beyond the influence. I take Selfies fairly regularly. I feel the difference between my Selfie and the regular is that I take "true" Selfies.
I take pictures of a bloody finger or me looking like some kind of idiot ready to kick a run in the butt. But you'll never see me taking (and posting) a selfie of myself (is that even the right grammar) going on the town. Granted going on the town is something I don't do often. Really, I went thru a TON of my profile pics and just pics with me tagged. Most of them weren't selfie-afied. They were pics my FRIENDS took. Or pics of me and my FRIENDS together. Our pics of me and children to little to take pics of me and them together.
Call me old fashioned. Selfies are just overly social media-ed "photos" that say, "this is me. Aren't I hott? Please say so. Because if you don't, I'm not totally sure why we are Facebook friends."
Maybe my insecurities have played out as security. Go thru my photos. They are me in face masques with friends, pre run with friends, "selfies" with children, group shots, etc.
I dare you to look thru them and not know the basic Kristen.
Seriously, I dare you.
I'm a basket case. I'm a nut. I'm weird. My randomness will always be random while sightly predictable. Honestly, there are no words.
Selfies are for dating sites. If you want to fake people out. That's it.
Facebook is for your friends to keep in touch with your day to day. More than likely, you're not gonna date someone who has been a Facebook friend for 5 years (depressing).
Stop with the selfies. Especially selfies that aren't recent. They're lies unless with coupled with WHY your life is sad enough that a 2 year old selfie is your profile picture.
Really, tho. They are a lie that wouldn't have been a "thing" as few as 8 years ago. Let it go. Be yourself. If you have the friends.
