Everyone’s highlight reel skips the part where they actually lived. That part is the good stuff.

What gets posted is the part that photographs well, which is almost never the part that mattered. The long conversation, the boring practice, the afternoon when nothing happened, none of it makes the cut, and all of it is where the life actually was. Comparing your ordinary hours to somebody else’s edited ones is a losing trade because the two are not the same category of thing.

When a feed leaves you feeling behind, remember you are seeing the trailer and living the film. Then go do something that would not make a good post.