Fake as fuck

I fucking hate social media, like not as whole, but I hate the fake ass personas people feel the need to project on them. I follow a bunch of different fitness and health folks online and while they’re helpful they drive fucking INSANE. Not one of these people strike me as being just a genuine human being. The health food lady making healthy shit for her family, the fitness chick with 4 kids, the child psychologist chick with 3 kids. WHERE’S YOUR STRUGGLES WHY DO WE ONLY POST THE POSITIVE SHIT?! Fuck yeah you look good ma’am, but where are your stretch marks? Hell yes that looks delicious babe but how the fuck did you get your kid to eat that? Your kids look like angels, but do you ever just freak the fuck out?! Like yeah I love that we’re trying to sell the idea of perfection, but it’s not realistic and I don’t think most people get that. And I think that’s messing a lot of people up because they assume these perfect lives the people they look up to put out there are attainable and when they can’t achieve it then they feel like failures. I just want someone to be brutally honest about how hard it can be, that success isn’t necessarily easy, and that everyone has a tough day every now and again. I want to hear about your insecurities, I want hear about your wins, I want hear about the lessons you’ve learned. I want to know that you’re human and that I’m not abnormal for not being the image of perfection y’all portray. Social media has too many people posting their best life hiding behind a screen while sitting at home feeling like a failure because they don’t actually feel like the person they’re pretending to be. When I post online I want to be a ray of hope for people. I want people to know where I am and where I’ve come from. I want them to know that I’m doing well and I’m happy, but that there are struggles because I’m not perfect. I don’t ever want to pretend that everything is always butterflies and rainbows. I’ve worked really hard to get to where I’m at today and I continue to work really hard to keep moving forward. I want everyone to know that I’m a real person, with an imperfect life and that’s okay. There’s no need to pretend to be anything you’re not. I’ve put in a ton of work to get everything I have today. Anything you want in life is totally attainable if you work for it. I am a genuinely happy person with nothing short of a pretty average life. I try my best to model the best behavior for my kids, but I make mistakes and I talk to them about it. I work out daily m, but I still have loose skin and stretch marks. I try to eat healthy but I’ve got a real problem with chocolate and I can’t convince my kids to try anything other than pizza and chicken nuggets. I have a great relationship with my husband, but we still fight and I sometimes want to headbutt him in the face. That’s just life. No one’s is perfect. Don’t expect perfection. All good things take time and work. Don’t discredit your process because it differs from someone else’s. You got this.