I posted a picture on my instagram, of me underwater and I thought this was such a cool
picture because I had just gotten my new Go-Pro and I thought it was so cool that I was able to
take a picture underwater. All of a sudden like a million texts started coming through
on my phone from a group chat that I was part of.
The first text in the chat was a screenshot of the picture that I had just posted on my Instagram.
I was kinda confused so I read the text below it and it said really mean
things about my body and how I looked and then, I scrolled a few comments down and there
was more stuff chiming in about my bathing suit, and my necklace and all this crazy stuff,
and I was shocked.
These were people I've gone to school with my whole life, and I’ve always considered
them my friends and, I realized they must’ve not known that I was in the groupchat because
they probably wouldn't have said any of this to my face.
And I went over to the mirror, and I just began to feel really worthless, and I just
examined myself and started feeling like everything they had been saying about me was true, and
I just started to cry, just cry, let all my feelings out.
My phone began to blow up faster and faster than before till’ I actually thought it
would literally blow up and like fire would spread everywhere.
People were still talking about me, and I just got so mad at that point, and I needed
to say my part in this I wanted to stand up for myself now.
So I picked up my phone, and I texted in the groupchat, “Sorry to interrupt but, I’m
here and I’ve been reading your texts this whole time.
What you guys are doing is really wrong, and I love the picture that I took.”
There was silence, the texting had stopped, and I didn’t let their mean words change
the way I felt about myself.
I made the very picture they made fun of my new profile picture!