A Pleasant disguise of illusion

We often see highly-edited pictures on social media that makes us feel worse about our own bodies. Is this beauty? No? Then what beauty actually is?

We scroll through Facebook, instagram and many other social media platforms when we’re bored or feeling down to refresh ourselves. Bur this could be affecting our lives too. We see a snap from our friends or celebrities which makes us wonder about our own bodies. Nowadays social media is doing more harm than good as the young generation is becoming insecure due to realistic beauty influencers and ideals. Social media has connected us and opened a path to a new world. But is that path leading to any good? The standards set by social media influencers have developed negative impact on our lives in particular men and women have battling their identity due to unrealistic beauty standards

In the race of being better than others they are losing the charm hidden inside them. Losing one's own self is like chasing the stars when you have the moon. We actually don’t value what we have and desires for more and more and more which is leading us to have depression and unhappiness in our lives.

But the question is how do we know what is real and what is fake? And how can we protect ourselves from the dark, deep and negative side of social media? As We’re living in the world of YOLO and hashtags throughout our time we spend on social media we may see many hashtags that say body goal, healthy diet etc but it doesn’t mean that what you’re seeing is reality. The truth you see on social media is the truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

An Influencer can post a picture of herself/himself holding up a weight loss tea supplement and their caption says weight loss tea or detox is the secret to her physique this alone, only a single hashtag or caption can send a very dangerous message to her followers. It is spreading the idea that supplements, diet pills and detox teas are the best way to achieve her body type, but in reality, they give you an illusion that has the appearance of truth. But in reality their looks are a combination of gym, plastic surgery and a generics amount of retouching. Their job is to look perfect and sell the product and promote the merchandise. The bitter truth is, a perfect body does not exist. It all needs planning, makeup and editing to post a final picture on social media and it’s designed to sell a product, not support a healthy lifestyle.

But this leads us to low self esteem and negative thinking toward food. That maybe eating less or not eating at all can get us a beautiful body like they’ve. That’s why world wide eating disorders have increased to 70 million sufferers and probably more. In order to stop this we need to know the difference between reality and illusion. Be you, accept your flaws The original is less and fake is everywhere. Don’t let social media control your life, you're beautiful on your own, be the best of you as the saying goes, no one is you and that’s your power so let me ask you what is your power?Y