Living a Pinterest Perfect Life

My name is Hannah Young and I am guilty of having a wedding Pinterest board. Before I knew it I had over a hundred pins of dresses, flowers, venues and so on. There came a point when the only thing I was pinning were wedding ideas and SURPRISE I'm 21 years old with no intention of getting married anytime soon.

So why did the madness start and where did it begin? My mom would tell you that it started when I was 3 when I would cry that I hadn't found my husband yet. To say that I was a planner at the wee age of 3 may sound hilarious but also sadly true. The most important thing to me for so many years was to graduate college, get married, have 2 kids and then live my Pinterest perfect life. The closer that I've gotten to graduation though, the more that has changed.

Me and my little brother. Even at a young age I was planning way more of my life then I needed to.

More and more I've realized that the life I want to live should not be defined by my Pinterest boards, but rather inspired by them. The days I spent pinning that wedding dress could have been spent with friends or more likely studying for the test that I was procrastinating on.

Don't get me wrong, Pinterest is a great tool for planning events like your wedding, what you want to fill your closet with next, or finding that great new recipe instead of eating Kraft mac and cheese another night. But don't get so sucked into the site that you forget your purpose of pinning.

That salmon  recipe may taste horrible but you won't know until you make it.

I still have my wedding board with it's cute "I do" title but I have sworn myself away from pinning on it. My time in college is too short to spend it planning what's ahead except for my career that is! Which naturally, I have a board for that too.

So what is my point? From this moment on, I challenge you to complete a Pinterest pin activity for each one that you pin. Crazy? Yes. But fulfilling? Definitely. Use the site for how it was actually meant to be intended. You'll never know how amazing that waterfall on your travel board looks until you visit it in real life or how great those homemade cookies taste until you make them yourself.

The Great Smoky Mountains, on an early winter morning. One of my favorite trips since I started college inspired by Pinterest.

So go on, stop planning and start living your Pinterest perfect life.