Sunday, April 3, 2016

Modern day fairytale love

I've got to admit lately I've been falling into the envious-ness (i know that's not a word) of the "social media" / fairytale life  of some people. Every time I open Instagram or Facebook it's someone confessing their love to their partner, going on these romantic dates, "crushing" on their significant other. I stupidly start judging my own relationship. Why don't I get these poems written about me? Why am I not a crush? What the hell is a romantic date?! I'll admit I've struggled with it and it's no ones fault but my own and I'll own that. But looking at these relationships through a screen can sometimes just seem so perfect it sickens me and ya I get jealous. Then today all the sudden I slapped myself back into reality. It happend when I was scrolling through and stopped at this person confessing their love & beautiful life they have. I stopped and double looked I knew 100% that person had an affair and never got caught. Now I'm not going to judge anyone's life or their choices, as you can tell I'm just critical of my own. But I thought why am I so envious of these people & their relationships. No one knows what's at the other end of the screen. People only want to show what they want, so people perceive their life a certain way.  Which I can understand because I'm not going to post a picture of my dirty home or my daughter crying cause she's tired and wont sleep or my husband and I getting into a disagreement. So today I looked at my life and yes I'll admit it would be amazing to get those public love confessions but having a partner who through thick or thin would do anything for me, who sits there watching a stupid Disney movie with me, who kisses me every morning even if I'm asleep and tells me he loves me that's all I need and want. I'll take that over a public love confession any day. I'm not writing this for any reason than to maybe shedd some light on others who are feeling the way that I've felt. To look at you're own life and be so grateful for the person you share it with and know how special they are to you. Social media shows  unrealistic versions of love, nothing's perfect, no one is perfect and that's the beauty of it. Finding someone to stick by you through the ugly dark times and coming out loving you more than before.