Readers are going to remember two major things when they walk away. The beginning and the end. it’s important to get eyes on whatever you’re working on, from someone who has a little distance from it.
all i can say is try, when you can, to be easy on yourself, and if that’s hard, think about what you would say to a friend. try to be your own friend right now.
With Instagram, self-defining and self-worth-measuring spilled over into the rest of the day, eventually becoming my default mode. I would keep scrolling as though the cure for how I felt was at the bottom of my feed. The landscapes I once Photoshopped my way into were materializing around me. There were a million versions of all of us running around in one another’s heads.