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Hatred When was the last time you said you "hate someone"?  To my colleagues reading this, I presume someone from school. Someone you probably don't know well, but decided to hate because you heard the rumours fly around. "Her? Her who did this? Who talks like that? Hah, I hate her!" Ask yourself. If this person never truly gave you the reason to hate them, never was in your way, probably never spoke to you worth "hating"? I'm going to get a tad vulnerable now so brace yourself     We truly are living the classic high school life, aren't we? Rife with drama, filled with gossip, rumours flying like birds in the skies of our campus. Anyone from our grade, we have something to say about.  In 2018 (roughly) we saw the emergence of "confession pages" with our school's name, aghast with our names. As we all know, mine was not quite in the background. Turned out people had quite a bit to say about me. Given that these pages kept the per...

  Filtered Pov: you compare yourself to the glossed out world of social media. ⚡️ask yourself: Let's say you were to post a picture from your work day on Instagram. Wouldn't you primp a little more for that picture? Wouldn't you want to amp your usual work ensemble with something more present and on brand? Would you have someone click or click about 30 pictures and post the best one? This goes to show that netizens and influencers alike would post highlights . Meaning that what they would show their followers would be an enhanced picture of something everyone normally does, thus making a subtle yet noticeable difference between themselves and their audience. ⚡️insights: The world of Instagram is made out to be perfect. No doubt that there are different definitions of perfect, but at the end of the day anyone posting with a wide following would want to fit in to certain parameters created by ourselves.  Standards are set on body image, appearance, picture taking skills as...