Pinned Interests

Everyday, I pull up Pinterest to get an image of what I will be making to eat that evening or next week. Occasionally looking up ideas that I have in advance, but typically just scrolling through my feed until I find something of interest to "pin" onto my imaginary "board" for later. What started out as a search for food slowly drifts into kitchen remodels, casual clothing to pair for outfits, color schemes to try out on my future living room, and workouts to slim back down my shape.

Pinterest has changed how I view what I eat, where I live, and what I look like. It is no longer just a part of my day, but rather a moment that I can plan, enjoy, and visualize before hand. Making a white chili chicken dish is not only a delicious sounding meal, but it becomes an activity, almost an art project to create and finesse. By making snapshot images of tasty meals in their final stages and beautifully decorated living rooms flooded with bright, warm natural light, Pinterest makes every day experiences seem like forms of art. This app has changed the way that I view and interpret beauty. This format of viewing the way I clean/style my room, dress myself in the morning, and garnish my dinner at night has become ingrained in my way of life. No longer just how I interact with the app, but rather my every day moments, Pinterest and many other apps center around making mundane parts of one's day more interesting.

This newly acquired mindset is not original to how I used to operate, and yet now looking back, I cannot imagine my life without the love/desire to make tasty, attractive meals or fluffing the pillows in my front room to make it seem a bit more inviting. These technological extensions have become apart of my me, and I apart of it. For without all the other users and I posting and exchanging pictures, there would be no interests to pin.