Cristina Zenato

Cristina Zenato Instagram – Reflections from the deck.
I have recenly posted about being authentic and refusing to use filters on social media.
There were so many beautiful, supportive comments and couple of not so nice. I am not affected by them but they brought up a few thoughts about the way people are acting and interacting on these platforms.
The comments can be from wrinkles on my face, to the size of my arms, none of which affects me anymore. I stare at them from a distance; I feel for those who utter those words and know that they are projecting their personal hurt onto others.
It makes me worry how these comments could affect someone else, make them feel less than.
What if the receiving end is a young mind, someone already overwhelmed by the staggering amount of fake, filtered, even AI created lives, which elevate expectations to a perfection that is not real and as such unattainable?
I responded that “Spreading kindness is better than using the power to connect trying to hurt someone; my skin tells the story of a beautiful and fully lived life, each line the memory of something special. Next time you are on the keyboard, think how you can support someone instead of trying to tear them down.”
Then my thoughts went further. Aging is a privilege, it is a gift many have not been granted.
I lost my best friend when we were 29 years old. My friend, and many others in my life have not had this opportunity to grow gray hair, sport soft skin, show wrinkly smiles and experience loss of hearing (yes that too 😂)
Aging is not something we should stop, slow down or even attempt to reverse, aging is the gift living is giving us.
It goes beyond the filters of an artificial world and enters the realms of what we have been fed forever and ever, in terms of how we are supposed to look, how we are supposed to slow down and reduce a natural process, how if we do not do it we are letting ourselves go.
So if there is something we can do when we are out there, when we are being bombarded by information and at times negativity is to remain true to ourselves and when in doubt spread some kindness, it comes cheap and easy to distribute..
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