We often come back to a screen, a social world filled with unrealistically exuberant lifestyle posts of people in our vicinity, and simultaneously a political world filled with destruction and sorrow. This generates a string of unfeasible demands and expectations in our head from our life and our partners.
“We only live once and our life is so mundane, our life is so ordinary, I can’t control anything, we don’t have that connection, or he/she isn’t right for me, we don’t have that spark that this couple has, look what her husband bought for her or look how he surprised her, how she is managing everything so perfectly and blah blah…”
Honestly, their life is as ordinary as yours. Somebody might be thinking the exact same thing looking at your updates. It’s that everyone chooses to filter the best of their lives, manipulate that a little and put it on display for the world. The girl that just updated a status about being cheerful, was crying two days back and is seriously messed up in her career right now. But she is not going to update that.
The couple that updated their trip selfies actually had a fight right before them. The lavish supper photos don’t necessarily mean it was a lovely dinner. Nor do foreign trips symbolise an enriched life. But a generation living with ideologies of FOMO, YOLO and Never Settle will not get it. We want it all and we want it now.
Note: something I read meaningful in an article by Swati Mishra
“We only live once and our life is so mundane, our life is so ordinary, I can’t control anything, we don’t have that connection, or he/she isn’t right for me, we don’t have that spark that this couple has, look what her husband bought for her or look how he surprised her, how she is managing everything so perfectly and blah blah…”
Honestly, their life is as ordinary as yours. Somebody might be thinking the exact same thing looking at your updates. It’s that everyone chooses to filter the best of their lives, manipulate that a little and put it on display for the world. The girl that just updated a status about being cheerful, was crying two days back and is seriously messed up in her career right now. But she is not going to update that.
The couple that updated their trip selfies actually had a fight right before them. The lavish supper photos don’t necessarily mean it was a lovely dinner. Nor do foreign trips symbolise an enriched life. But a generation living with ideologies of FOMO, YOLO and Never Settle will not get it. We want it all and we want it now.
Note: something I read meaningful in an article by Swati Mishra
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