“I came. You saw me. You compared. You lost” – ping
If undocumented research is to be believed, even a doorknob has a better time staying happy than a human. Right from we started pooping on our own, we were always made to compare and according to the world, comparison helps you push your boundaries, break barriers and rise above all. In reality, we just push ourselves towards misery, break our own happiness and sink so low that rising seems bleak.
Comparison has a new word, rather a sound these days in the form of a ping. This feeble emitted sound can result in disquieting our entire moment and making us queasy in the process. Then we take the risk of checking it and our happy go lucky moment goes down the drain. Comparison results in leaving us belittled and feeling miserable about our lives. Social Media has inadvertently made it all the more horrible.
It has become almost impossible to evade technology knowing how a cellphone has become a part of our body and soul. It’s not far when biology teachers explain their students that the human body has 206 bones, two hands, two legs and a cell phone. We cannot help but stick around in the vortex of the digital world.
Consider this – You score 90% in your exams and there you flaunt it like your newly formed muscles on social media. Your peer uploads 94%. Suddenly the world collapses. Your 90% is as worthless as wearing underwear in a porn film. That score doesn’t excite you anymore. People congratulating you don’t entice you anymore. The desire to make the world aware of your achievement slowly aerifies leaving you hollow on the inside. A minute back you were ecstatic as if you won a ‘Bharat Ratna’ and now you feel as if you are getting something as shrimpy as a ‘Ghatkopar Ratna’. The problem with us is we can never be satisfied with what we have and then we start comparing. Just when we feel we have everything in the world, we get notified about something better that we do not possess at the moment.
Worst case scenario – Your ex uploads his/her happy moments while you are in the dumps moping around your feelings in a pillow OR you are stuck at work doing the same shit everyday while your peers take selfies with the sun in Goa OR you spot an insta upload of a friend eating some unpronounceable french dessert while you are licking an Amul ice cream box at your home. HORRIBLE RIGHT? Your happiness depends on someone else’s uploads and this is dishearteningly true.
The pain gets addictive after a few instances. You can’t resist checking those notifications, get disturbed for a while and move back to your insignificant lives. The way how small sonic waves can impact your existence in remarkable right? Maybe one way we all will overpower the power of a ping. There is always hope after all.
*ping* Someone just checked-in at Mars. Enough said.
Till next time,
Cheers.
REBEL DIARIES 
This makes so much sense. Also, Social media does cause low self esteem in many as people post only about happy moments…
Seriously, ONLY happy moments float around. Also, it is impossible to evade social media like i mentioned.