Guilt is often an emotion we carry from childhood and then project onto current circumstances when we felt as though we were burdens to those around … - Brianna Wiest

What you have to know is that suffering is just the refusal to accept what is.

Social media is actually making us more emotionally disconnected. Consistently consuming soundbites of people’s lives leads us to piece together a particular idea of reality — one that is far from the truth. We develop such anxiety surrounding social media (and whether or not we’re really living up to the standards expected of us) that we begin to prioritize screen time over real-life face time. As beings who require human intimacy (romantic and not) to survive, it’s becoming a more and more detrimental force in our culture.

The people you smiled at on the street this morning, the people whom you text regularly, the family you could stand to visit more — all the little bits of genuine human connection that you overlook because they’ve become givens.