Social Sneaking

What do you do when a social media post sends you into existential crisis?

Write a blog post.

I go from feeling content with my life and happy and free from social pressure to have achieved xyz by age dot.

To sheer panic that I am running out of time.

That I picked the wrong path, that I could have had the boy who would have loved me and done everything I wanted to. But I chose the other one because he intrigued me. And where did that leave me? Here, in panic!

Panic

Alarm

Pit of your stomach full of wiggling creatures trying to eat you from the inside out

Nausea like you have just eaten dirt by the gallon and your body is rejecting your existence all together

Tears, streaming down your face, flooding you with your own emotions, your own reality

Heart beating like it might give up at any second, working harder than you ever thought possible to keep you alive, and yet all you want is for it to be over and that constant flurry in your chest is causing you the pain of realising you are still alive and this is still happening.