The carefully curated and filtered world of social media further perpetuates this BS idea that there are folks out there who effortlessly have their lives together in a consistent, ongoing way. The end result is that those of us (which is actually all of us) who have to deal with flat tires and debilitating anxiety and dwindling bank accounts and difficult family members and ingrown toenails are left thinking that everyone else has figured it out and we’re the ones doing something wrong.
