Wellness Industry (Or the Very Reason Why I Blog)

So I just stumbled on that post and everything the author writes in it sounds so right to me. I highly encourage you to read it because it is mind blowing and eyes opening. But it's true it's pretty long and I wouldn't be a real blogger if I'd throw you the link and be done with it. So here's my two cents.

I discovered the marvelous world of Instagram three years ago via tumblr (gosh, my tumblr years were so much better, but that's another topic). It was a whole new world of inspiration opening to me. I created an account just to follow my idols but never posted anything. As time passed by, I slowly became more and more driven to this virtual world and as I was really enjoying my fitness journey I felt the desire to share my experience with the amazing fit community.

At the beginning of this year, I started to post on my account. It was daunting but super exciting. I had the opportunity to get in touch with amazing girls from all over the world (you'll recognize yourself if you read this ;)) but I also discovered a darkest, much less fun side of Instagram.

See, I had this naive belief, that Instagram was about sharing, supporting each other. I'm not a complete fool, I already knew about haters and really, I don't really care about the. No, what bothers me more is this kind of selfishness going on. I feel like it's all about promoting oneself. I always see the same comments all over and over saying how beautiful and amazing someone is but I feel those praises are empty. Because it's all about promoting oneself. Call me jealous if you like, I don't care.

I'm also really, really concerned by the dimension it took. Like we're all perusing at our plates, counting calories and macros (I know I'm guilty of that too but I'm trying hard to recover from it) and I feel like we're slipping toward a generations of disordered eaters. And its scary. And I wish I could do something but I feel like a fraud because I'm not able to stop it for myself. I will try in the future to share more of my thoughts on this blog about this. Lately I've been reading g more and more on the subject from various authors I can't get enough of them (I'll talk about them in another post) and I'm still struggling to find a way to express what I feel and what I've learned so far.