最近容易陷入焦虑当中，刚好听到网上的一篇girls talk 感觉很有帮助，就把它写下来了给自己学习用。都是一些简单的词汇和基础的口语表达，多读几遍，这样在口语考试或一些面试中，如果刚好有相似的话题，就能信手拈来啦。
Sometimes when I scroll through social media, it seems like everyone else is having the absolute time of their lives: they're traveling all the time, they're getting so much done, they're accomplishing these huge goals, or they're going out every night and the morning they somehow have a productive day.
And it just seems like they are doing so much, then in comparison when I think about my life, it seems like I’m super boring or something. I'm grateful to just be able to travel once a year, I spend most of my time in the library or working, and I don’t have a huge group of friends that goes out and parties or goes to all these fancy events or anything. So if I get too caught up in these online worlds, I start wondering, how their lives can be so exciting or focusing on what other people have and what I don’t, and in the end it makes me feel pretty depressed.
I oftentimes feel like there might be something wrong with me, because I see these people going out, and going to these parties and everything all the time, traveling and doing all these cool things, but in my life I don’t have any of that.
Sometimes I wonder if there’s something wrong with how I’m living and wonder if I should be going out more, I should be partying I should be going crazy, because my life looks nothing like theirs. But then I remember there was this story about an influencer who kind of got exposed faking all of her content and making her life way more exaggerated than it was. So this story kind of made people second guess, the things that they see online, because you don’t know what these influencers' or even celebrities' lives are really like, and you don’t know what’s fake and what’s real, or what’s exaggerated and what’s not.
So now, I think it’s kind of pointless to compare our lives to those of celebrities or influencers, or sometimes even people we know in real life. Like maybe there’s someone in your company, you think she is perfect in everything, she is so perfect, right? But that might not even be the case, because people usually don’t want to show the negative sides of themselves, and they only want to show the good and positive side, so you’ll never see influencers talking about bad things in their life. So both online and in real life, I feel like people just pretend that things are a lot better than they really are, just as a way to keep up appearances.
There was actually this quote I saw recently that said “Comparison is the thief of joy”, and I really think that’s true. Because the more that I compared myself to those people online, the more I just depressed and insecure and felt like something was wrong with me because I didn’t have a life that, so doing any sort of comparison it just going to make me feel worse about myself, so to some people maybe my life seems boring or not interesting, but to me I’ve really learned to love having this simple and happy kind of lifestyle, things don’t need to be exciting all the time. I can still find joy and beauty in the little things that happen from day-to-day life. So whether that be watching the sunset, going for a walk, or spending time with my loved ones. Or working on my hobbies or goals, It’s all part of life.
absolute: adj. 十足的， 完全的
caught up: 赶上
influencer: 有影响力的人，网红
exaggerate: 夸大
fake: 虚假的
pointless: 毫无意义的
pretend：假装
appearence: 表面
quote: 引用
insecure： 缺乏信心的
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