Jen is experiencing an existential crisis — an Instagram existential crisis. Dread, agony of choice, and the impossibility of perfection are all topics on this episode. But pulling it all together is that META spawn, Instagram. Join her in the agony. It will be fun!

O Me! O Life! By Walt Whitman Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring, Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish, Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?) Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d, Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me, Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined, The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

...but Jen definitely is! And that's OK. She's finding purpose in her wandering, especially when it leads to beautiful, surprising discoveries -- like maybe she's not as horrible at speaking Spanish as she thinks. Maybe it's what we all need in life -- to get a little lost to be able to discover the beautiful things waiting for us.

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

You know that we are living in a dystopian world, and I am a dystopian girl. So predicted Aldous Huxley, anyway, according to Neil Postman, author of the book Amusing Ourselves to Death. On this episode, Jen takes a hard look at how she is actually losing her capacity to think -- and doing so ... willingly?? (Just take a look at the sentence structure of sentence two -- yikes.) It's not a therapy session to miss, that's for sure.