I don’t care how many likes I get. What I do care about though is what I do offline. There’s no issue with social media. The issue is created when there’s no distinction between online and offline. Get off your phone. Look up. Let’s really connect. Let’s talk to one another. Every time I look up, I see heads down, staring at a phone. As if we are limited by our capacity to venture out into the world to talk to one another. Hey stranger, tell me that book you’re reading on the bus. We cover up our normalized behavior of anti socialism by mere small talk; the talk I…

Wake up they say… “You’re living in a utopia” They don’t understand… They don’t feel… They don’t see me the way I know me. So vivid, so imaginative, so optimistic. She hides it from the world because it was never understood. Only misunderstood. Her visions for the world, her love and compassion towards others, only a select few get to see it, get to know it. She likes to feel loved. She doesn’t do well with rejection. She hesitates to avoid rejection. She wants to be free. She wants to blossom and bloom She’s like a butterfly. She’s in her caterpillar stage. She’s going to blossom as a beautiful butterfly,…