The perfect unreality

This is an older post from my Swedish blog that is just as relevant now. It's sort of a boot in the ass of all exaggerated influencers and internet celebrities, and it's not a designer boot, just a cheap copy...

Sure, it's good to get various advice and tips in the media feed, in lifestyle blogs and on TV, but sometimes it goes a little too far, I think.

Experts and celebrities are supposed to decorate one's home, talk about how to dress right, how to exercise and what to eat to feel good...These lifestyle programs create a kind of template for both the human and the material appearance and how everything must look to be socially accepted. In the long run, it can create stress, financial ruin, a feeling of inadequacy and, in extreme cases, diseases such as eating disorders, loss of self-esteem and ultimately depression.

Pictures of trendy decorated homes, daily outfit selfies, gym visits in trendy workout clothes and carefully styled dinner settings and perfectly prepared soufflés are showed on Instagram, blogs and other social media.

People are apparently afraid to deviate from the crowd and trends. You almost yearn to see a photo of a messy kitchen with an unmade-up and dishevelled woman in cosy pants and flip-flops with a normal damn plate of porridge and a mug coffee instead of a soft backlit image of the same woman, perfectly dressed and freshly made up with the well-manicured claws around a mini bagel, as well as a latte and laptop parked on the café table at eight o'clock on a Monday morning...

Yes, I sound bitter and jealous but I'm not, and I also get caught up in perfectionism sometimes, but then I just put on my old worn bathrobe and my cosy pants, dusts off the flea market chair, grab a mug of coffee and sit myself down until the attack passes....

XOXO

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