C-25 FOMO!

This new year, there is one distinction we must engrave in our minds for once and for all.

We find ourselves constantly caught between the dichotomy of a SOCIAL LIFE and a SOCIAL MEDIA LIFE, little realizing that keeping the wordplay aside, these concepts are poles apart.

Social media gives one the liberty to script an identity which they want people to associate them with. Thus, making us believe that the person we’re stalking is on a 24/7 euphoric high engulfed by a procession of friends who’re sweating dollars at an elite pub, while you’re shaking your left leg to wake it up after sitting in one position on your bed for too long. Our entire sense of deriving sadness or happiness from other people’s private life is a flawed call. Then whether it is, the body of an ig model, the lavish lifestyle of a Youtuber, or even the multi dotted snap stories of your homies which go way longer than a Bombay-Pune railway track, all instances happen in the bubble of a social media life with the needle concealed so well that you can’t pick through to bring it to reality. Thus, all I’m saying is, social media sites climb on our FOMO asses to get centre seat at the corporate. Let them not tread into our gulf of real and reel, and do cherish the present, which is the greatest gift of all times.