Music. Fashion. Food. Books. TV shows. Sports. Religion. We as people always long to belong. Having a sense of meaning helps many feel as if they have a purpose. From a small book club to the captain of an intramural sports team. Fitting in is a cultural norm that we accept at a young age that is installed in our Minds before we learn a single class in school. Your parents put you into sports to make friends, to fit in. They enroll you in piano to join a class of kids who play piano to fit in. We as people our entire life try to fit in and be liked by others just to feel good about ourselves. We are obsessed with never missing out. the idea of FOMO is a poison that we made ourselves via social media, the very thing that’s supposed to bring people closer has never made people feel so far apart. Attached to our screens moving to another day in and day out. You start to wonder if everything I see and how people are now, is what I want to fit in with. At some point, it’s exhausting to worry about what others think and do and keep up with the jones’. At some point, you just want to get out of this matrix we are currently building and then complain about building.
We use fake personas to showcase how good our life is, well if it was so good and so much fun, why do you have to show it off. The actual event is never as much fun as the idea of showing others that ‘they aren’t here’. It’s of high importance that we teach at a young age to not care what others think about you. No matter what you do will be judged for any decision you make. The world is an ugly place. The only way to fix it. Is to get away from being so connected and enjoy life again.
Go to a concert and don’t show the world
Go on a hike and stop showing me the sunrise
Stop going to a beach and telling me I should be there
Please. Please. Stop going to a restaurant and allowing the phone to eat first.
Whenever you go.
Whatever you do.
Be there.
Be fully there.
Be in the moment that won’t happen again.
Capture it in the only camera that doesn’t need a backup so it doesn’t get erased.
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