Instagram is the most used social media platform. It is said to be somewhat toxic for our mental health. As we tend to compare our lives with the ones that are accessible to us through Instagram. We might know these people in person or we might not. We know that most of the times people don't show or post the raw side of their lives. What we see online is mostly edited and altered. Still we fall for it and start comparing, not positively.
Instagram for me was also the same. I used to compare people who had better access to things than me. Had the "perfect bodies", etc. But as it is said that a coin has two sides to it. We often overlook the positive side of Instagram. "You see what you seek", heard it then thought of implementing it. I had been insecure about my body a lot. Then one day randomly, an inlfunecer's profile came to my notice.
She was quite similar to me bodywise. And I saw that not only she was embracing herself proudly but also she was inspiring many teenage girls like me who were insecure about themselves to do the same. I started accepting myself. Stopped seeing my features as flaws and eventually gained confidence.
So social media does has it's own pros and cons. But it indeed is rightly said that you seek what you see and you become what you see. So why not see the positive side.
