>>194819There is no need to worry about what others might think when someone is already established—known for who they are and what they love doing.
It isn't as if a teenager who began her journey of self-discovery online...
...would grow up and radically change in adulthood, abandoning and forgetting everything she encountered in those corners of the web—places where one finds things that might be negative, yes, but also things worth liking.
Her personality and psyche were shaped to their very core during her development—from adolescence onward—within that specific online world.
On top of that,
The girl possesses genuine artistic talent and knowledge that goes far beyond the usual, random superficialities.
She cannot simply become something other than what she is.
She might only rely on a performance to maintain the image of being "normal"—
—something she truly isn't.
And there is nothing wrong with being that way,
Or with wanting to remain that way.
Yet, seeing someone with all these traits reduced to a mere "Instagram mom" archetype...
...is a perspective steeped in sentimentality and romanticism. It’s a desire to preserve a simple image, believing it keeps her personality and life "healthy"—and, above all, "living well and correctly"—finding positivity in a life where, in reality, there is no such thing as "correct" or "incorrect" ways to live, socially or otherwise.
But everything I’ve written here is just my own sentimental nonsense—no different from the very thing I’m criticizing.
Because I want to keep watching this creature's life as if I were a visitor at the zoo...
...observing her drawings, her musical tastes, and her mysterious personal life.
For this female creature is just like me.
I am nothing more than a stranger watching another stranger, surrounded by strangers in a strange place.