Okay so it’s really late, and I’m kinda tired, but there was just something I had to share.
What is wrong with our generation?
I like social media. It let’s me keep in contact with my friends easily and stay involved in their lives even over long distances. But! When did this need to prove to social media that you have friends overtake our lives?
A group of friends just left. We had a great evening of good food, funny games and lots of laughter. And the whole time I kept thinking that I should take a photo and upload it to facebook; just to prove that we had been together. To prove to everyone else that I had spend this evening with friends and not alone.
Instead of just enjoying the company, I wanted to make it into a publicity stunt.
I wanted to impress all those people I didn’t have the guts to invite. Prove to the people that think I’m a wallflower that I have friends. But none of those people matter! Because the people I didn’t have the guts to invite, are all the people that think they’re better than me. And the people that only see me as a wallflower, well why should I care about their opinion?
I want everyone to like me and to want to spend time with me. But that is simply not something I can achieve. I can never have everyone liking me, just like I don’t like everyone myself. Instead of focusing on everyone you should just focus on those that really matter – The ones you invited – The ones that already want to come.
I had one of the greatest evenings since I’ve moved here. And in all those hours we spend together I had it all. Yet I wanted more.
I was a spoiled brat not appreciating what was right before me. Just wanting more and more and more, and nothing would ever be enough.
Because with that damn smart phone in my hands everything was literally within my grasp. So I wanted to make everyone think I was likeable instead of focusing on the ones that already did, and didn’t need a damn photo to do so.
I never took the photo. Yeah it would have been a nice reminder, and had it been good I might even have framed it. But that wasn’t why I wanted to take it. I wanted to take it for all the wrong reasons, and therefor I’m glad that I didn’t.
So the next time you take your phone out to prove to the whole world that you have friends and fun. Maybe just stop and think – does it really matter that anyone knows, other than those people that are right there in that moment with you. And maybe, just maybe, take that god damn photo for the right reasons.
XOXO The Doctor
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