Not Every Scroll Is Soul Searching 📱🧠💥

Ever opened Instagram’s Explore page for “just five minutes” and somehow ended up 45 minutes deep into a reel spiral of skincare routines 🧴, neon-lit dance battles 💃, crying girls in filters 😭, and a cake-cutting fail from 2017 🎂?

Yeah. Same.

It starts off so innocent — you just opened it while waiting for your Maggi to boil 🍜. One cute outfit reel 👗. One hair transformation ✂️. A cat video 🐱. And then BOOM — the algorithm hits you with:

> “Top 5 signs he’s toxic 🚩”

“This sound hits different when you’re healing silently 😢”

“You thought it was love, but it was just unhealed trauma 💔”

Like... ma’am please. I just wanted serotonin, not free emotional flashbacks with dramatic piano music 🎹.

The worst part? The algorithm thinks I’m in shambles. 🫠

I liked one emotional reel and now Instagram’s like:

“Aww. Poor thing. Let’s drown them in breakup edits and sad girl poetry.” 🧍‍♀️🪦

No! I’m fine!

Maybe a little tired 💤, a little hungry 🍫, slightly emotionally unavailable... but still FINE 😤

Now every time I scroll, it’s either someone sobbing in their room with “until I found you” playing in the background 🎶, or a girl lip-syncing “he was never yours” in 0.5x slow-mo — all while I’m just sitting on the floor eating Parle-G 🍪.

And don’t even get me started on the aesthetic pressure 😵‍💫.

Everyone’s room is beige 🕯️, candle-lit, with fake vines 🌿 and glass mugs ☕. Meanwhile, I’m here in a mismatched t-shirt 👕, surrounded by yesterday’s snacks 🍟 and three unread messages from my mom 📩.

Pinterest told me to “romanticize my life” so I lit a candle 🕯️, opened my journal 📓... and then proceeded to scroll for 2 hours straight 📱

Now my candle’s over 🫳 and I still haven’t healed anything except my phone battery 🔋 (which is now at 12%).

Sometimes I think my screen time deserves a warning label:

> “This user has entered the main character multiverse 🎬 and may never return.”

Even my explore page is confused 🤨. One minute it’s showing me moon pictures 🌙 and “you deserve soft love” quotes 💌, the next minute it’s recommending how to escape toxic friendships while making banana pancakes 🍌🥞.

Can we talk about those people crying on camera? 😭🎥

Like... you’re visibly devastated but still managed to find good lighting 💡, a flattering angle 🪞, a trending audio 🎶, and remembered to tag your skincare brand?? Teach me your ways.

I can’t even take a selfie without checking the mirror 12 times 🫣.

And let’s be honest — half the time we’re not living, we’re staging life 📸.

Standing still for a fake candid photo 🤳. Smiling while overthinking 🤐.

Walking in slow motion while pretending it’s a Netflix intro scene...

IN THE MIDDLE OF TRAFFIC 🚗.

Who are we performing for??

Even my shadow’s tired of pretending 😮‍💨.

Oh and btw, no — not everyone’s healing in silence 🤫.

Some of us are just emotionally buffering with 2am playlists 🎧 and typing aggressive journal entries in our Notes app ✍️.

It’s called balance. ✨

So here’s your gentle reminder:

Not every scroll has to be soul-searching.

Not every reel has to trigger a personality shift 🌀.

Not every quote has to turn you into a soft, beige, mysterious poetry girl 📖.

You can be chaotic 🤪, loud 🔊, confused 😵, quiet 🤫, brilliant 🧠, anxious 😰 — all in one scroll.

You are not behind in life ⏳.

You’re just algorithmically overwhelmed.

And maybe a little too online 🧷. But hey — aren’t we all? 🤷‍♀️

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