I’ve been wanting to start a blog again for a few months but I wasn’t inspired on what I should write about, the holidays are a busy time, and well every other excuse there is to make up honestly. Until one day I was looking at people’s stories on Instagram. Unfortunately, I have succumbed to following several people from reality TV in the last year. It’s not necessary to name names but they all have one thing in common. There’s always a link to the outfit they’re wearing and their favorite product from Amazon is currently 23.4% off.

Gag.

Arguably, I should just unfollow them but I don’t. Why? Probably, because I need an outlet for my judgement every once and a while. It’s healthier to judge people you don’t know than the ones you do, right? Right. Anywho, those accounts with endless Amazon sales and a reality that normal people are simply not living inspired me.

In a world full of bogus people, false realities on the internet, and the stressors of life, the people of the internet need real.

The honest people of the internet need to feel validated for the times we thought your favorite razors are probably not the ones that are currently on sale for $14.99. We don’t want the links to your outfit. We want to hear about the times you slept through your alarm clock or had a genuine mom fail. We don’t care about what’s currently trending on Tiktok or gets you more views.

If Instagram Influencers are allowed to become popular by clicking their nails on things and taking their fifteenth vacation of the year there should be a space made for the normal people of the world. The people who were three minutes late to work this morning because they got the coffee they knew they didn’t have time to get. The people who love their spouse but also understand how someone ends up on Dateline. Real people with real thoughts and maybe a little bit of judgement.

You can be kind and genuine. You can love people but also want to hurt them (but don’t).

There’s so much pressure in life to be the perfect person, to be kind, to be encouraging, to be a good friend, to be a good spouse, to be productive, to be this, to be that, that we lose ourselves in what we should become and forget who we are.

Contrary to what we tell ourselves, there’s not a perfect person out there. You can be nice and be occasionally sarcastic. You can be a good friend most of the time but pull back a little when you’re struggling. It’s possible to not answer phone calls when you’ve had a long day and still be supportive to those closest to you.

We get lost in absolutes. You have to be 100% available 100% of the time. Otherwise, you’re a terrible person who hates their family. You can’t judge people because you don’t know what they’ve been through. If you judge, you’re an awful person. Well, I for one am not buying it. There are times I’m not available. Contrary to popular belief we were not designed to be glued to our phones every single day. Acknowledging that someone made poor life choices and realizing they need to get their life together isn’t necessarily a bad thing either.

I digress.

If you like what you’ve heard so far there’s definitely more to say but for now I will start by welcoming you to Lez Be Honest, a place where people are people and we do judge.