I’m taking a break from fake –
I mean – Facebook.
It is fake though,
full of smiling faces,
pictures of places people go
to escape what goes on behind the scenes.
We scroll mindlessly every night,
think of how good everyone else has it
while we sit and suffer
because our life sucks in comparison.
A couple in love,
a friend thriving in their career;
we think we want what they have
because we can’t see
the bickering,
the late nights,
the feeling of being alone,
the endless debt,
the texts from another lover,
the fear of losing it all with one mistake.
Social media makes us want
what we can’t have
when in reality,
no one has it in the first place.
We can’t base our feelings
on what we see online.
I’m not going to keep making this mistake.
I’m taking a fucking Facebook break.
The Caffeinated Writer 