The fear of missing out

It has long been a very integral part of society - a fear of missing out. Everyone wants a piece of the cake, noone wants to miss out on something potentially great to later end up regretting it. And even though I have heard FOMO in the context of parties or going out a lot, I have found a similar notion on a larger scale - a feeling of missing out has made its way into many minds. I have a stark feeling that many young people of the new generation feel like they are missing out somehow. I am looking especially - yet again at social media, at influencers and celebrities portraying their most glamourus lives for everyone to see.

Maximizing the wrong target function

It is very clear to me that I do not envy the lives of most celebrities or influencers - essentially whatever I see on social media. This is mainly because if I did have the life that is shown in the pictures then I simply would not post them on social media - why would I? The amount of time and energy that is being spent on putting their lives on display is very much part of their lives - if not the biggest part. Living the life that I want to live should always have priority over displaying the life that I want to live. If you have everything, then why do you need to show off? Maybe it’s just a personality thing but for the moment I have no reason to believe that.

Why being rich sucks

Because money doesn’t provide long term happiness. It only prevents misery. Gathering a large amount of money essentially gives you diminishing returns. That combined with the lengths you have to go to to achieve immense wealth is just an incredible net negative. The grapes are not too high. They’re just growing on the wrong side of the mountain.

Live your fucking life

Life is about being happy and making people around you happy. Maximize happiness. Don’t maximizie wealth. Also, I feel like I’m repeating myself somehow but many of the issues I have with society as is are very closely linked to each other.

Spirit

I just looked at the title and realised I wanted to say something about spirit. Well, sometimes I think back to how simpler times must have been. Just recently I was talking about how crazy it must have been to attend a Black Sabbath concert in the 1970s. Ironically, that is also a feeling of missing out or more like a feeling of having missed out. That’s not the point tho - these moments still exist for individuals. I still remember some of the most meaningful moments of my life - a significant amount of them were at festivals and concerts. All of this is getting lost and we all know it.

Knowledge used to be power

Nowadays, ignorance is.

On a side note

I very often write my posts when I’m sad because it gives me the opportunity to get some stuff off my mind and to project some of my problems on society (sounds like a bad coping mechanism but it’s an absolute game changer, you should try it) I’m not a very sad person in general, the times I am sad just heavily correlate with the times I write my blog entries.

That’s all

Friday 13th is tomorrow. Watch out for Jason :)