MAJOR ADDICTION THAT BIRTHS 21ST CENTURY FAILURES

“I just realised I have gotten nowhere. I mean, look at that car Jay bought. I am four years older than her. By the way, did you see her latest post on Instagram? The location says Dubai” bla bla bla.

Mary Beth talked to me just yesterday and from the tone of her words, I could tell that she is dying slowly as a result of depression which itself, is traceable to her constant prying into the achievements of others.

One way to destroy your self is to keep up with the successes and achievements of others. The easiest way to do that is social media. Unfortunately, we have more social media addicts. What do you do online? Follow people up, check out their latest achievements, and begin to see yourself as a failure, which you eventually become, because you lost focus by fixing your gaze on their successes, forgetting that you also have a life of your own.

Most times, we lose our lives by getting so carried away with the lives of others. If we are to be honest with ourselves, we would realize that some of us spend more time with social media than we spend thinking and planning out our future.

If you spend your day following people up on social media and working in offices to achieve other people’s dreams, without a plan of your own, then you are heading towards being just a “normal person”. Do you understand? If you don’t, I’ll break it. Look at this example:

You wake up early in the morning, check your phone, go on Instagram, Facebook, twitter and all sorts,  get so carried away that you find it difficult to detach yourself from it. You eventually succeed in detaching yourself and head for work. Meanwhile, you work for someone. You work in your boss’s office. You work towards achieving your boss’s dreams, without thinking of becoming an employer yourself. You are just a normal person. If you are not sitting in your office, achieving someone else’s dream, you are online checking out people who have achieved their own dreams. No life of your own. You join in the talk online- the talk about achievers. You do not get motivated to be an achiever that will be talked about.

It’s okay to be online. Some people make their money there, while some people lose their money there. How do they lose their money, they waste so much time on it, and Time is Money.

This addictive behaviour has stripped intelligent students of the chance of being great learners.

Okay, I don’t wanna bug you with so much talk. It’s getting late.

Finally, reduce your presence on social media. Reduce excessive attachments to it. Reduce unnecessary engagements. Normalize your spending habits via reduction of data subscription fees.

Speaking of data subscription fees, isn’t it funny that you’re broke, yet can afford data sub fees monthly. Oh! About monthly data, they don’t last a month, do they?

Listen, social media is not a pest. It is not a demon. It only becomes one, when you get so addicted to it, that you can be so forgetful to remember that you have a life outside it.

I saw a quote some time ago that reads: Don’t get so carried away by social media. NOBODY IS POSTING THEIR FAILURES.

I totally agree with it.

You really want to know if you are a social media addict? Stay away from social media for three days. See how you feel.

Meanwhile, I’ll give you this personal hint: Quit posting about your private life. Leave people guessing. It’s fun. If they don’t ask, don’t tell them. Even if they ask, if you do not want to tell them, don’t. You owe nobody an explanation. If you are not a social media addict, you have friends who would post absolutely everything. Spilling info’s to them is no privacy whatsoever.

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