Blur Zine

It is no surprise that social media has vastly impacted and twisted perceptions of beauty and how and what our bodies should all look like. I would find myself sometimes wanting to crop and blur parts of my body and face out of photos just to feel like I'm fitting in with others online content. However, recognising and reinforcing the fact that I was comparing myself to something that is not real and doesn’t exist and has never existed because of layers of editing and cleaver camera angles. I felt like I was blinded by the social media content that I was consuming and it became a overpowering and negative environment, even If I’d tell myself that I was enjoying using it, its only until now I look back and realise what a self destructive environment it was. For me it was never about my weight it was about how my image portrayed though the lens and how people could or possibly judge me for what I share. To overcome this I simply deleted all of the negative content from my feed, unfollowed some influencers that were simply displaying a unattainable lifestyle, it sounds simple but once I made my online space more positive, it made the world of a difference.

I feel sometimes we all forget our worth in our skin and even if that’s you now reading this you can take some time out of your day to appreciate your self more, I'm not saying every moment of every day we should love every part of ourselves because that’s not realistic but just give your body some appreciation for what it does for you. I have learnt that we as human being are never going to stop caring what other people think but just try to care less.