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lovechugsblog.com · Sep 28, 2013

The Wizard of Oz


The truth about happiness for me--is that there are no numbers in happiness.

I distinctly remember a brief moment in time awhile back where my life, my digital life that is, started to accelerate rapidly. I went from 14-20 page views per day to in the thousands of page views per day within the span of a just a few weeks.
What's funny to me about this (and its the one part that I remember so distinctly) was that this fact made me no happier. Not one bit.
Strange, right?
And what's really odd is that I saw it affect the people surrounding me more than it has ever affected me personally. People were either:
A- ridiculously happy for me B-hitting me up for more lunch dates/partnerships or C-totally uncomfortable with it and ignored it/me.
I embraced the C people's reaction....because, I guess, I was a bit uncomfortable with it, too.
My whole take on life is that I always want to be apart of the solution...never apart of the problem. So, the issue I have is this:
I think I may have been a part of the problem.

By displaying my life publicly for a large audience, am I teaching my daughters and young readers that there is power in numbers, therefore making them want to strive for that? Am I putting off that a certain amount of a person's "success" comes in the way of multitudes of people swooning over their personal possessions?
I hope not. Cause that stuff means nothing at the end of the day.
Goals are so important, but some goals of our modern time are so silly...hitting a certain number of followers, getting to a stupidly low weight, striving for those 6 figures in your bank account.
....the numbers.
It's all pretend.
You'll reach the number you've always wanted to someday and realize you're no different...Because real happiness dwells inside. It's actually in you. It's in the people you surround yourself with, and what you put your time and energy into.
Not in the numbers.
So for me, that's my kids. It's my family and its my friends...and it's learning more about who I am and why I'm here on Earth a little more each day.
Some days the only reason I am alive is to clean up smushed grapes Remi has tracked all around the house. For real. I'll lay down at night and think...'Today I cleaned....and that's all." I have decided that those days, although seemingly mundane, are still very important days....But, other days I'm a pretty big deal around this house, and I feel like the keystone holding this family together.
Life ebbs and flows, and I'm certain it all makes sense in the end...but I want everyone to remember you're not the number of likes you get on a photo whether that number be big or small, ok? Cause after all, it's really just some weird, little robot guy working an Instagram calculator behind a big, smoky green curtain anyways.

photos from The Over-Analyst's post... You can go check out a little interview Bronson did with her awhile back. It's pretty cute.
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