Brianna Gomez

Oh my gosh, something's wrong with mine.

We look at what other people have and suddenly we place ourselves in a position of lack.

Aren't you exhausted?

It is so draining.

It's a draining to perceive others on social media and it's also draining to be perceived on social media.

So whatever end you are on,

I promise it's not all that.

And I promise that, yes, continue interacting with your community, continue putting up your photo dumps that you work so hard for, your art that you work so hard on, but don't let yourself get consumed in the numbers.

When you are constantly refreshing and refreshing and refreshing to see how many likes your post got, to see how many people messaged you, how many people commented or reposted you,

you will never be satisfied because i'll tell you this much if you get the followers right you want 10 000 followers and you think that will be something that fulfills you you get them suddenly you want 20 000 followers and then you want 100 000 followers and then you want a million like you always want more and social media is not some finish line that we are waiting to complete

It is something that is never ending.

And if you don't learn how to have the willpower, the self-control and discipline to say, I am going to log off.

I am going to put it down and shut it off.

You will never be happy.

And I say this with the hopes that you don't just say, okay, yeah, I guess it's true.

I'll never be happy.

No, I want you to be happy and you should want you to be happy.

And so learn how to have some balance of self-control in a relationship where you can walk away.

And I say this about people and all of my self-love episodes, my self-worth episodes, friendship, dating episodes.

I always say that even if you love the people in your life, you have to have enough respect, worth, and value that you hold within yourself where you know that if everyone disappeared or broke up with you or didn't want to be your friend anymore, you would be okay.