Seriously

There is one thing in particular that I learned in my 5 months out of college: People take themselves too seriously, myself included. You know how people exaggerate their stories to make them sound better? They add a few hours to how long they did something, they say more people were there than in reality, they make you believe they are closer to their destination than they really are. I feel the same applies to the image that we put forth of ourselves as well. We want to believe that we are more than what we really are. We exaggerate our problems and our daily responsibilities to make it look like we struggle more than we do. We lengthen our resumes to make us look more life-experienced than we really are. We twist our stories so that it seems like we have more substance to talk about than is actually there. We make ourselves seem more important than is perceived. But then that's a bold statement of pessimism. Maybe this does not apply to everyone. Maybe everything is relative because who is to judge what is an exaggeration. But I want to start doing this: telling and showing how it is.