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A Superficial Living

Tawana K Watson
1 min readOct 18, 2019

People flip out when the wait at Starbucks is longer than 2 minutes

Everyone’s on the internet living in their own reality posting pictures of their colonoscopies on Facebook

We glorify being on medication because the stress is to much we play insane when things dont go our way remember that Facebook Live feed I did explaining what all my pills do to me

We sleep with our cellphones under our pillow so when we wake up to go to the bathroom we can Twit it cuz God forbid I do something and no one knows

I know exactly what type of lunch you had each and every day because you posted it on Instagram

On those sites we appear to be the shit but the truth is we post pictures from our high school days and we lie and build up our lives

If they only knew the real me see I am a bit overweight and I work for McDonalds and I never been no place every detail I posted on Tumbler was phoney and fake

I dont have a car I catch the bus I have a flip phone not the Samsung S 10 plus I also dont have a bank account I use a prepaid card

But the fantasy that everyone wants see including me is the one out there on the internet

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Tawana K Watson
Tawana K Watson

Written by Tawana K Watson

I am a certified peer counselor, minority mental health advocate, and African American women’s advocate.

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