When I look at the people I follow on social media, I feel bad, because they're much nore successful than me, often even much younger too.
When I look at the people I meet in my daily life, I'm doing quite okay.
I haven't set an alarm for work in years, can buy what I want without too much consideration, mostly work when I feel like it, and the work I do is often interesting.
Hey there -- I had my come to Jesus moment (aka gtfo) with Social Media when I realized that people I didn't even know and care about were evoking feelings of shame, guilt, and/or anger within me.
And then I left.
Read your comment. You're fine! You're more than fine! To thine oneself be true.
No offense but why are you on social media at all lol.
>I haven't set an alarm for work in years, can buy what I want without too much consideration, mostly work when I feel like it, and the work I do is often interesting.
You are doing better than 99% of people who have ever lived!
And what kind of success do you think those younger people on social media have? Can you give an example of what you look at? Is that success something you want?
I dabbled in thought leadership for a while, with a PR agent, and its nice to have a voice and really awesome google results but I didn’t/don't like being considered like a journalist on rare occasion
In unrelated anonymous profiles (lifestyle/wealth/meme/model pages) I have used followers and engagement as currency. As in used to obtain goods and services. Its great because you never spend it and it works worldwide.
But I prefer just having access to experiences without undermining my ability to obtain goods and services, food and shelter in the future. I mostly have that, and there is very little limitations I will consider in achieving that. It sounds like you have that.
It's not necessarily even exaggeration as much as selection bias. If you have enough "friends" on social media, statistically every other day one of them will post something they're proud/happy about, making your feed a constant stream of other people's "success". But the brain is having a hard time dividing these streams by the number of people in your feed; it feels as if it was a small group of people who have it all.
When I look at the people I follow on social media, I feel bad, because they're much nore successful than me, often even much younger too.
When I look at the people I meet in my daily life, I'm doing quite okay.
I haven't set an alarm for work in years, can buy what I want without too much consideration, mostly work when I feel like it, and the work I do is often interesting.