As I scroll through my newsfeed, the same things keep popping up: the humble brags, the flattering selfies, the carefully orchestrated like-generators. I realize how pointless it is to compare my life to those of my Facebook friends, because they don't share their entire lives; but I also realize the seductive temptation to compare myself, the seeming importance of numbers of likes and comments, the heady rush when my post is more popular than usual, and the masochism of admitting to myself "this person has more friends than I do" when I have no actual idea whether they really have more friends than I do or whether they just have more Facebook friends than I do. What I've found, though, is that neither of those things matter. What matters is that I am a person with my own life which isn't supposed to be the same as everyone else's.
