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Chiffa Aug 2014
you know what? i don't
think i'll ever really know
what i want to do.
Chiffa Aug 2014
when i grow older,
i'll look back to now and ask,
"what happened to me?"
Chiffa Aug 2014
i tried to make a
rhyming poem but i think
i'll stick with free verse.
Chiffa Aug 2014
She wanted to be different
From who she really was,
So she came up with a brilliant
Plan and called it, "Just because."

"i want to change things up a bit,"
She thought with utter glee,
"i guess it's time that i admit-
i need some inconsistency."

And so she strangely began to act
The opposite of what she usually did
All because of her silly pact
For her real self to be safely hid.

But she was getting tired of
Trying to be someone else
And so she decided to give up
And just go back to who she was.
    
the girl decided that                                          
being someone else                                            
was much more difficult                                    
than being herself.                                        
she was used to                                    
being who she                                  
was before                                  
and decided                              
to stick with it.
Wow.
That kind of followed
my own mindset
as i was writing this...
  Aug 2014 Chiffa
John Buhler
We seek attention,

Facebook,
Twitter,
Instagram,
Tinder,
Kik,
Snapchat,
It's all about the most
Likes,
Comments,
Retweets,
Favorites,
Snaps,
Followers,
Where have our real friendships gone?
When something goes wrong we post a selfie,
write a status,
send a snapchat,
or tweet about it.
For what?
For the hopes to hide our feelings on the internet.
For the hope that a stranger will like it,
That a stranger will leave a comment saying everything will be okay?
We have become numb.
Forgetting the real relationships in our lives.
When there's a problem, we escape to the internet for that next like instead of talking to someone who actually cares.
When we don't get the attention we're looking for, we post a #selfie to find what we're looking for.
Social media has become the new drug of our age,
And it's changing the way we live our day to day lives.
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