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Tonight, I stumbled across some posts about Essena O'Neill and her Let's Be Game Changers movement. If you haven't heard about O'Neill before, then let me fill you in: she is an "instafamous" nineteen year old girl working to increase knowledge on the damages of social media to young girls' self-esteem and concept of the word "sexy." A good few of O'Neill's photos show her in expensive gowns or bathing suits that make her appear much "older, sexier." O'Neill's platform is geared toward raising awareness of the damages of social media.

A lot of the time, basically whenever you go out, you can see so many people on their mobile phones. 90% of the time, we are just scrolling through Tumblr, Twitter or Instagram to see what everyone is doing while we wait in line at Subway. And what do we end up doing? Wishing that we had that person's life. Don't lie; I'm extremely guilty of this. Everyone is. She's not wrong in her claims to leave behind the idea of "#goals," because your goal should not be to be another person.

Your life goal should be to be the best version of yourself that you can be. Everyday, that is what you wake up to do, to work on. I think that O'Neill's idea is fabulous. I think that drawing attention to the endlessly-traveling, gorgeous-all-the-time, making-bank girls and guys that we see on Instagram and realizing that their job is to be like that... is important. 

Nobody has a flawless life; not even the people with 10k likes on their Instagram pictures.

catch you later,

Karleigh

"Social media, especially how I used it, isn't real." // Essena ONeill