Expectation vs Reality

The world we live in today is undeniably amazing, we can have anything we desire at the touch of a button. We are constantly radicalising improvements to make our lives better and we are confident that perfection is within our grasp. But whilst we drown ourselves in our own brilliant achievements, we forget to celebrate just how skilful and inspiring we are. Positives become negatives and we look for ways to be unhappy in order to fix them, even when they are not broken. We attempt to overcome anything that holds us back, believing that moving forward should be a general rule of our existence.

But have we progressed too fast?

Throughout time, our generation has evolved faster than our previous ancestors would have ever predicted. Our lives have been transformed by the industrial revolution, making everything bigger and better in order to create brighter futures. By constantly developing our modern ways we endeavour to make our lives better than our parents and their parents before them.

Unfortunately, it’s an illusion, a fantasy.

Unintentionally, through our own brilliance, we have constructed a world of rivalry. Our identities are in a duel with our competitors, convinced that their success and perfection only belittles our own achievements. We are trapped in a vicious circle of speaking untruthful words and fabricating lives, because the persona we are trying to display, is viewed to be more appealing than our reality. Most of us are now trapped in a insta lie and we’re too consumed by what others think, to get out. Gradually our individualism is disappearing and we are losing what makes us unique. We find comfort in hiding behind lies, who we really are and what we really want. We hide behind filters to fit society’s unhealthy and unrealistic beauty standards. With a click of a button we can have whiter teeth, less wrinkles, brighter eyes and smaller waists to name a few. We are of a generation that has taken ‘Cat fishing’ to a whole new level.

“Instagram has ruined a whole generations expectations of relationships, work, and everything in between. It has made ‘perfect’ look normal. So now ‘good’ has become disposable.”

With every passing day, it seems the distance between expectation and reality grows further away from each other. Our world is not only ignorant to the truth, but it hates the truth…