Facebook Hangovers

The morning after the night before..

You wake up to find notifications popping up on your brightly lit screen, 'ping ping ping' - oh yep, the dreaded 'Facebook Hangover'. 

In drunken antics everyone loves a 'selfie' or flipping the camera round & snapping away at their peers; Well wouldn't it be brilliant to magically eradicate everyone else's awful snaps of you?! - sadly this is impossible ( - PS. someone sort it out. )

I found myself in this predicament only a couple of days ago, flicking through the pictures my mind pinged -  'yes, okay, yes, no, okay, okay, no, HELL NO!'... Oh gosh were a couple brutal! Do people not see how horrific they are ? or in their very own hungover state find it rather amusing to upload the petrifying disasters of the eve before? - anyways, it happened, they were there, there's only one thing left to do, press it - UNTAG. Phew. . . Nope, they're still there, lurking away on someone else's screen in internet turbulence. 

WAIT.. 

What makes them so dreadful? 

INSECURITY

 ...are they not just random captured moments of you having fun taken by someone other than yourself.

That's it - it's the 'Selfie' VS 'Non-Selfie' anxiety. 

To which I have suffered with dearly. Every girl knows you take snap after snap until you find 'the one' to upload, yet these in discussion are the non-staged creations & with that comes dread.

However, I very rarely have these moments - due to my love of snapping I tend to be on the other side of the camera. I love having memories captured forever & often wish people took more pictures ( NB. - Take pictures of Meeeeee darn it! )

This is why after a couple of days of mulling over them, I no longer hate these snaps, In fact I have grown to quite like them -  knowing that this is the natural, happy me in a moment of giggles. Okay so yes I am totally inebriated but life is for enjoying hey?! I should be able to drink, chat, & dance the night away with friends without the fear of tomorrow's status & so with that realization - really who cares if I giggle with my teeth showing?! who's going to stop their Facebook feed & think 'OMG' & still be thinking that in 5 minutes time?... quite frankly, No one. 

Insecurity is one of the hardest battles, but one that can be overcome in little stages.

So go out this weekend, enjoy yourself & don't be afraid of Facebook. 

This is yet another lesson in self reassurance & I am so pleased to have learnt it.. 

xx