Lost in Dot

Instead of my usual blog structure, I have decided to start this post off with a quote: "I wish you would ever write me a Letter half as long as I write you..."         - Abigail Adams When I first read this, I was reminded of one of my biggest pet peeves: writing a long paragraph over text and getting an uninterested response. It's that feeling that you get when you rant about something that makes your blood boil, and you're hit with an "okay" or "that sucks". I definitely have a lot of pet peeves. My biggest one, by far, is cocky people, but I also have problems with the fact that most jeans for women have 2 cm deep pockets. Seeing as these petty ideas seem to peeve me (haha see what I did there), I decided to try and see how many pet peeves I could think of in two minutes. I came up with 30, which may not seem like a lot, but that's about one every 4 seconds. As a comparison, I tried repeating the same activity, but instead, I wanted ...

Seeing as it's 2019 now, I want to start my post off with the discussion of goals. But no, not the kind that you set out to achieve each year, rather the kind I constantly see on my social media pages. As I scroll through Instagram, Pinterest, VSCO, etc. I'm bombarded with posts about how someone's boyfriend is #relationshipgoals or how two people are #friendshipgoals; the list goes on and on. Despite how "cute" these posts can be, they lead me to wonder what unrealistic expectations they can often set for people. Viewers tend to forget that people who have #lifegoals have low points as well. For example, a YouTuber named Sierra Furtado became engaged to her boyfriend, Alex Terranova, with the pictures being reposted hundreds of times with the #relationshipgoals. It was seen in some of Sierra's later videos that she wasn't wearing her engagement ring - an observation that caused people to speculate whether the couple had broken up. Truth be told, the cou...