Rule No. 3: Social Media has an effect.
I got home and I greeted my sister. She was playing video games. My mom was busy in her room and my dad was doing work in his room. I went upstairs to my room and lied down there. I scrolled through videos on my phone. It felt like seconds passed rather than a few hours. I watched hours worth of art videos and entertainment. I watched as there were so many pretty girls posting videos. I knew I would never be confident enough to post my face. They were so pretty, I wanted to be like them. How do I learn to do makeup like them? I watched lots of couples videos, where the people in them seemed really happy. Friends making videos together and having a lot more fun than I do nowadays. I usually stay at home day after day, occasionally visiting my family's houses. I never do much, especially with school starting. I always hated the question "what did you do over the summer?" because I would always hear of other people going on amazing vacations and eating amazing food when I practically stayed home playing video games the whole break. I wish my family went on vacations more often but my parents are always too busy. I go to the washroom and look at my reflection in the mirror. For some reason it felt unsatisfying to look at my face in the mirror. Maybe it was the lighting or something? I noticed that my smile wasn't as pretty as Eleanors or Janes. How can they have such pretty faces? I smiled in the mirror. Wow, is that how I really look when I smile? It looks really weird. My smile feels out of place. I heard it's just because you're used to your face sometimes but I can't help but stare at my reflection in disappointment. Social media is supposed to be fake. So how come Eleanor doesn't wear any makeup or use any filters in real life and photos yet she always looks so amazing? Almost like those girls on this so-called fake social media. I don't know. It seems unfair. Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself. I gave my reflection a sheepish smile and got ready to go to bed. I was tired. That's probably why.
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The Rules of Society
General FictionLaura, an odd girl, at least to her peers, goes through the hardships of uncovering secrets hidden beneath the standards of society. Making her way through an endless horizon, she finds both her sense of self and meaning within the confines of the w...
