Why you won't ever find happiness

Social media has infiltrated deep into our society and our minds. It's inevitable that we pick up our phones and go into our social media apps - wether that be Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, etc. We see others with amazing backdrops in the Bahamas, remote Islands, foriegn countries, etc. We can't seem to stop ourselves from comparing us - the individual that we are - to others and put a mirror up against them using our phones as a gate to hell. In our modern world, it's hard to find that happiness, that state of bliss - a sense of quiet in our lives. But, life goes on. We tell ourselves that today might be the day that we get log off, but it's hard. All our friends, famillies, acquanities, they're all online. Everythign nowadays have gone virutal and it's hard not picking up our phones and going to hell. We won't ever find the happiness that we're looking for. A study done by Instagram has shown that teens are becoming more depressed and have an overall negative effect on how we see our bodies. It's hard being connected with people virutally all the time. But, that's what our modern life has become. A meaningless shell trying to mimic what real life relationships are like. Soon, it won't even be a stretch to say that we will see other people face-to-face at all with creations like the metaverse trying to become a reality. We've grown distant to one another wanting to have food delivered to us, stuff shippped to us, and seeing each other through our phones. We don't ever truelly go outside and see others face-to-face and smile to each other. Happiness has disappeared virtually along with all the human emotions that we as humans felt for one another. Is there a solution to this?

Well, we could first get outside and see the world for what it is. Try to connect with each other more on a personal scale. Get vulnerable with one another and embrace the emtions from sadness, depression, loneliness to one of happiness, joy, and love, and really feeling something rather than going through tiktok aimlessly scrolling through the feeds maybe getting a few laughs and cries, but ultimately feeling empty. We try to get rid of ourselves from truelly feeling the feels scared about the unknown rather than embracing it. How could we really get to see the other side and see the joys of the world without embracing it first?

We need to get ourselves out there in the world and not let social media and technology mimic the true feeling of connection. Screw parasocial relationships with your favorite content creator. They don't know who you are. They don't know that you spend hours of your day watching their content. They don't know you but the people that you can meet and get to meet later down the road can relate to you and help you feel more things than you just aimlessly staring at your screen frozen in time trying to distract yourself from your own intrusive thoughts. We need to stop trying to feel numb and dull all the time. We need to get our of our habits on using social media and crave real human interaction and not those that try to mimic it.

We need to get out there and show the world what we're all about. Looking at our phones all day won't change your life. Instead you'll be wasting your life away wishing things would be different, but that's all you'll be doing. Wishing not doing. It's time for you to start doing and not staring into hell.