Just do you

In todays world it is way too easy to compare yourself to other people, wether that be your friends, complete strangers or even celebrities. With people documenting their entire lives on social media it is easy to look at their achievements in comparison to your own and feel downhearted by the difference in your success.

I too often find myself looking back through people's Instagram feeds and wondering why my life doesn't seem as perfect and 'together' as what theirs does. Why don't I have the perfect eyeliner flick everyday? Why don't I have a perfect relationship? Why don't I have a career that I love? And why don't I have a drawer full of MAC make up?!

It is way too easy to create a 'perfect' persona of your life on social media, everything looks prettier with a Valencia filter applied to it. And who can blame us really, posting a picture of your exciting Saturday night out has got to be better than the reality of working until 9pm and then devouring a takeaway that should definitely of been shared between a family of four.

But the truth behind it all is that you can never really tell what someone's life is truly like until you get to know that person, and even then perhaps you do still only see a snippet of the truth. I think one of the most important things I've learnt this year is that, being honest and unapologetically yourself at all possible moments is so much better than pretending to be something that you are not.