In the age of social media, it's easy to see the wonderful/beautiful/fabulous places everyone is going to with their wonderful/beautiful/fabulous friends or significant other. I'm sure I'm not alone in this, but sometimes the overwhelmingly positive cross-section of my friend's lives that they display to the public makes me feel inadequate.
It's tempting to be jealous of what they have, but based on the people I know pretty well in real life, none of them are as happy as they make themselves out to be in their online personas.
Case in point: a particular couple who graduated from my high school a few years before me. For years, their profiles were filled with adorable couple photos, then photos of their lavish wedding, followed by their tropical honeymoon. Fast-forward about 2 years. According to what the groom's bitter mother relayed to my mother, the wife cheated four times in their first year of marriage and then left him.
Good thing I wasted no time being jealous of what they had, which apparently wasn't much.
I wish, every once in a while, someone (other than myself) would have the balls to admit to the world that their life isn't always super awesome and exciting. I'm not saying to air your dirty laundry all over the internet, but make a real effort to create an accurate depiction of who you really are.
Try it. Maybe your friends will hate you less.
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