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Hi people,

I woke up. I checked my Whatsapp, answered all messages, and switched to Instagram. That’s what I do almost daily except for days when I am late for college. That’s what majority of people do. So when I started with the stories, I realized one thing after watching a few of them- it is just a virtual happy place where everyone shows-off what they got- only the good part. People share/boast about the good times they are having – be it some good food they ate or a car ride they went to with loud music on. I mean seriously? Everyone lives for food so they would eat great. Everyone has a car, everyone goes for rides, everyone uses that damn music box in the dashboard, what is new with yours and why do you have to share it? TAKE ABSOLUTELY NO OFFENCE people but don’t you think you should keep some moments to yourselves as well? Otherwise all you would ever do is check your views and search that special name in the list? Where is YOUR peace in the happy moment?

Coming to the things nobody shares. What happened to couple who kept posting pictures and sweet captions with each other after their breakup? What happened to the one very good/best friend whose pictures are so down in your feed that you’ll have to keep scrolling for 20 seconds to get to them? What about the time you didn’t post for like two months and then came up with motivating stories and captions of bringing yourself up? To the one sided lover who posts poetry or shayari every night, won’t you disclose who that person is? I mean it’s only fair if we get to know that part too. But you know what? I don’t think anybody would like to hear you whining on a social media, judging part would go parallelly and that is altogether a different topic to talk about.

I am not against sharing or posting stuffs, if that’s what most people are thinking. You just have to know that what to share and I am absolutely no one to teach this but I think I should. Do eat great food, but instead of sharing just the picture, put it up with the one you went and talk about how the day was. Do go for car rides, but enjoy them instead of shooting and re-taking and uploading the videos. It is okay to have a breakup but atleast let everyone know that you and counterpart are in happy places. Add more pictures with people who mean to you and not them with whom you are just pretending to have a good time. And to the one who would have been suffering emotionally for months, putting up stories won’t help; talking about it will. And to the one sided lovers, you probably should move on and not let your life revolve around the person who might not feel the same for you; and if he/she would, you’d be talking to him/her right now.

So lets bring some reality to this ground and share happy moments (some occasions/meetups/ootd pictures maybe), and help others by talking through their difficult times.

Recently someone great told me- ‘why not’ is always better than ‘what if’.