What Is A Pinterest Moment In My Life Essay

I am tired, exhausted if I am being honest. Life has become the equivalent to a sideshow, people see the act and cheer loudly only to inspire you to keep it going, but behind the scenes the real mess is hidden by a tattered velvet curtain. The phone rings, text ding, Facebook likes sore, and retweets beg for my attention all expecting a witty upbeat remark that I respond with through the filter of my digital self. Everyday I receive perfectly worded digital questions and take my time crafting and arranging every word I put into a reply, in fact I go as far to put in a LOL [laugh out loud] even if I hardly smirk while reading the message. To avoid being alone we create digital-selves that are always connected, in demand, and available, creating the feeling that we can do anything everywhere because there is so much data to experience. Our digital profiles keep our lives a quick click from perfect at all times. Pinterest is the place we post and connect with the perfect we aspire to, such as the perfect backyard paradise, fifty meals jumpstart your metabolism, reinventing a night out into a dream. Instagram captures our life on the go and enables us to capture every smiling face, perfectly brewed latte, and warm beach scene. It even allows us to filter imperfections to create the ideal sunset that is more beautiful than the real thing!
We must connect and process our feeling not as a quantifiable check box or in 140 characters and less but through expression, touch, and experience. Technology has put us in constant demand and always reachable by our work and leisure lives, we must adapt and challenge ourselves to create sacred spaces for authentic real time conversation. Slowing down is not a negative, in fact it can rejuvenate our minds and allow us to experience the no. Let’s go fly a kite to become inspired instead of uploading a photo of a kite that flies with the purpose of a hundred