To simpler times

Do you remember the simpler times when we clicked photos because we wanted to preserve moments and not because we wanted to upload them on a social networking site? Or the time when selfies didn't exist because no one thought it was sensible enough to click photos of their own self? Or perhaps the time when all these Instagram filters and photoshop techniques didn't exist because no one thought it was important enough to edit photos. Because they were perfect the way they were taken. No one cared about their butt looking big or their shoes matching their clothes, at that time. After all, why would they? It's not like the picture was going to be shared with some thousand people on their Facebook list.
And believe me, I notice the irony too. This is coming from someone whose phone consists of 5600 photos at the moment.
We all do it. We all think we have some kind of a 'social image' to uphold. Or people that we need to impress by the wealth we have.
And you know what the worst part about clicking all these monotonous selfies are? We try to look happy. We try to look perfect in these pictures. And that is a very stupid thing to do. This concept has made us even more complex than what we already are. It has made us into these social beasts who pretend to be happy or partying all the time. It has inculcated the habit of us showing everyone that we're better than them. But are we?
They said it best in The Fight Club:
"We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like." 
We all do it. And we all know it's not a very clever thing to do. Yet, we somehow in that twisted little head of ours justify our actions and tell ourselves that what we're doing is different than what others do and that our case is special. But is it?
Are all of us not getting lost in the rat race to impress others? To pretend to be different?
There are a lot of complicated things in the world. Socialising shouldn't be one of them.
We shouldn't click pictures because we need to show our arch nemesis that we're leading a better life than him. We shouldn't care about the number of 'likes' we get on social networking sites. We shouldn't care if people think a picture of us is ugly. We shouldn't take down a photograph because someone tells us that our nose looks distorted. It shouldn't work that way. Somewhere down the line, we are losing our individuality because of it. We're forgetting who we truly are in order to impress others. And it shouldn't be like that. You should be able to dictate how your social life works and not the other way round.
Go ahead, wear sweatpants. Take down some of that mascara, you're prettier without it. Eat like an animal if that's what floats your boat. Tell someone you like them without thinking what they might say or who they might tell.
And I know that writing this won't change a lot of things. Not in your life and not in mine. But I'm hoping it does. For, I'm writing this for both our sakes.

Life is too short to be lived according to what other's definition of 'perfect' is.