New year, new feelings of failure

It's 2020, and because we have hit a new decade, my social media feed has been filled up with reflective posts, lists of achievements and comparison photos. I am sure it has been the same for you all. 

For a self-confessed social media addict who is always the designated photographer at any social event with friends as well as being a total oversharer who is also incredibly sentimental, I should have been one of the first to leap on the trend. Instead, I hesitated and started overthinking it. In the end, I talked myself out of doing anything. 

One reason was that a decade ago, I was just a couple of months into a disastrous relationship which ended in my worst heartbreak. If I had been in a much happier place ten years ago, I might have been more inclined to do one of those comparison photos. 

But that wasn't the only reason. All the posts also just felt like a big huge reminder of all the milestones I haven't hit. While some people were talking about getting married (and even divorced),…