Social media life (?) 📱📸

So let’s take a moment to retrospect on past few years of our lives. Remember that trip with your family a decade ago? Or the night you went camping with your friends? Try to remember any outing that you went to.

Now think about what you did on that day? I’m sure it was fun! Laughing at each other, having food together, playing on the beach, lying down under the sky!

How blissful these memories are! Now, think about any outing you’ve had in past two years. What did you do?

Let me tell you. You clicked millions of selfies with your tongue out, funny winks and terrible pouts. Oh you also captured videos of nature to post on Facebook and Instagram. Then there are a few boomerangs and tik toks!

You posted those pictures for the rest of the world to see. And to see what exactly, may I ask? For them to see how perfect your tiny little world is!

To showcase yourself as the happiest person alive. To show how adventurous you are and how brilliant/witty your sense of humor is by copying some random quote from the internet.

And then there is a battle of likes, comments, reactions and shares. You slowly got addicted to it and the monster of virtual world consumed you.

So now you go to any restaurant, first thing you do is click pictures of food from ten different angles, add filter to it and post it on one of the social media sites with hashtag ‘foodporn’

You wear pretty clothes and apply makeup to click hundreds of selfies. And still you think the picture is not ‘good enough’ for your so called ‘friends’ or ‘followers’ to see.

So you apply filters, crop the unnecessary portions, adjust the brightness and contrast and after 1 hour of struggle, you finally upload it with an intelligent quote and at least ten hashtags. Then your whole day goes in checking who liked your picture and how many comments you got.

And you- who don’t upload anything at all, don’t let yourself think that you are wise. For you know you spend hours on FB and Instagram checking their posts, reading every comment.

You are well versed on who is dating whom and who dumped whom. You know what your classmate ate for breakfast and which movie she watched last night.

So what’s the point of me writing about it? Well, to be honest I am no different from you. We all are in the same boat. Yes I know this virtual world is not at all real. And I’ve come to a hard realization about it.

Think about it- ten years down the lane what memories will I have about my youth? What stories will I have to tell? That I was too good to make tik tok videos? Or I know how to pout perfectly and plaster a fake smile on my face?

Search for the pictures you went roaming- what did you find? Your weird faces with minimal of scenery? Sure, it looks like you had a lot of fun! But did you?

The concept of taking pictures was to capture a moment and save it as memory. Yes, take pictures. But the question is how many exactly- in a day or when you are out? Definitely much lesser than the garbage that is stored in your gallery (no offense!)

I realized how much precious time I’ve lost in so called ‘making memories’ that I’ve actually not made any, that’s worth remembering. That’s why this blog.

To make you understand that life is everything except those selfies, pictures, posts and likes. That you may think your friend is having the most amazing life and you feel the need to show that you are no less than them.

But the truth is your life is much more better when you are with real people- away from your phone. It’s better when you have a real talk with someone rather than texting them.

Your words makes a difference when you say it (and not text).And I don’t need to tell you that home made dosa is much more better (and healthy) than the pizza that you posted the other day!😀