#maybe i'm more like george and dhani than i thought

[peaceloveandstarrs]

brainwashed. dhani reposted the story about the album anniversary from george's ig account saying it really is a thing. the more i think of it, the more i think both of them are right (george wrote the album so)

society and media brainwashes us to think that we need to constantly buy buy buy. unhappy? buy this fancy journal with all of these prompts, that'll fix it!

i bought a wellness journal on a day trip last summer. where is it? in my dresser drawer. haven't touched it since before work started back. what do i use to journal? a plain notebook that i've had for two, three years. no prompts. just whatever i want to write.

hate your body? buy this exercise machine, this diet plan, this juice cleanse! that'll for sure fix it!

does it? not in my experience. i've tried to shrink myself for YEARS. i've got posts on my blog showing my exercise results going back to 2015. nearly a decade. the only thing that can fix the hatred of our bodies is to stop giving in to the societal/media brainwashing that we're supposed to hate our bodies. we aren't. think about it with me for a second. imagine what would happen if we got rid of the media portrayal of fat bodies as bad or something that needed to be fixed. imagine if we got rid of influencers peddling diets and exercise machines or people showing off their extreme weight loss. would we have nearly as many people hating their bodies? absolutely not. food for thought.

at a concert? out in nature? better have your phone with you so you can take pictures! at home? better be on your phone looking at what everyone else is doing!

personal experience here. i took videos from kareoke at our work christmas party last year. of the music person at staff wellness day b/c our cook got up there and sang with him. i took pictures of christmas lights yesterday. have i looked any of them? no. i've deleted video after video i've taken. because they just take up space. and honestly, even if i went to see ringo or paul, i probably wouldn't watch the videos i took.

now, i understand having your phone on you in case you run into trouble. that i get. but i don't want to watch a concert or a sunset or the drive through the country through my phone's camera lens. i understand wanting to preserve memories. but we've become so obsessed with wanting to put these things on social media that we watch literal once-in-a-lifetime events through our phone's cameras, trying to capture everything to put on facebook or instagram or whatever. it's sad. we're brainwashed to be jealous of what others are doing instead of appreciating our lives for what they are. and at the end of the day, we're all mortal. we aren't our bodies. we are our souls, our personalities, our hearts. and do we really want to be on our death beds regretting the comparisons we made to others? wanting to be like them instead of finding ourselves?

thinking for ourselves? what's that? we're told what to think. tiktok especially has loads of people telling us that this food is bad (scientifically, it isn't). that this exercise plan will get rid of X amount of pounds in a week! that we need to do this to love ourselves. how about we go on our own self discovery? learn what we like and don't like instead of forcing ourselves to do things we don't like just to reach some societal idea of happiness. don't like meditating no matter how much you try to? cool, don't do it! don't like hiit exercises no matter how much you're told it's the best type? fine! nothing says you have to do them. don't like face masks and soaking in a tub with a fancy bath bomb? hey you do you babe! you've got other ways to love yourselves.

so fucking sick of being told how to be. how to look. how to feel. of being told what to do, what to buy, to be happy.

i'm sick of the world, the media, society 'brainwashing' me.

#idk what this is #but dhani's repost got me thinking #maybe i'm more like george and dhani than i thought #long post #societal commentary