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FOMO — Nope
I don’t have FOMO, despite all your best efforts. You know who I am talking to, all those annoying people who keep going on about stuff you are missing out on because you aren’t part of ‘the group’ ‘the seminar’ ‘the webinar’ or what ever the f*** they are harping on about.
Here’s the thing, it used to be TV ads that as kids we’d go, oh I need that! Five-seconds ago we didn’t know ‘that’ existed, but now our lives are incomplete, in fact they will be ruined forever if we don’t have it.
As adults its social media, that FOMO because everyone is posting about what they are doing. Everyone is on that course. Everyone has that magic diet pill and is thin. Everyone is on holiday. Everyone has a perfect marriage. Everyone has perfect kids. Everyone… actually, hardly anyone is doing those things and those that are, probably half of them wish they weren’t.
We have become such a glutinous society. Consuming everything at an exponential rate. Nothing is ever enough and that person over there always has more, and better than we do. It’s sad really. We are no longer keeping up with the Jones’, we are keeping up with the fakes, the filtered images and cherry picked lives of our internet acquaintances.
What ever you see on the internet, whether it is someone’s perfect life, the magic elixir that will give you eternal youth or the guru that can tell you how to…
