Logging into Facebook is quickly becoming the millenium vs of reading the newspaper! You get posts from multiple friends on your home page and know what they are upto. The other day, I log on to see, one had travel pix up with pictures of lavish restaurants and hotels, another had pix up of her latest culinary creations, etc... And it got me thinking for a while, (maybe its the fact that I am reading Eat, Pray and Love which is drastically altering my thinking cells) but, why are we constantly on FB trying to differ from the others? Why is it we need the attention? I'm not spared either in this truth of the matter. Some individuals post statuses and get a high from the volume of comments, others from the way they lead their lives and the continuous pictures of them partying, and the others through their superior achievements. I'm trying not to judge yet there's always that line @ 30, I want to be wiser and better than I was at 20.
We constantly strive for this attention through our posts because we are restless. We're restless because we are simply bored of our mundane lives no matter how exciting and thrilling we may appear on social forums! We still lead a regular pattern i.e work, home, etc... we're continuously looking for something yet we don't know what it is! It's like that U2 song, "still haven't found what I'm looking for..." I wonder if the posts really do fill a void or the emptyness within... they may bring momentary highs but nothing beyond.
I feel as you age and I'm not trying to be cliche here but you begin to feel like you need something to believe in which is larger than you and your life. "What I'm seeing in some of my friends, though, as they are aging is a longing to have something to believe in. But this longing chafes against any number of obstacles, including their intellect and common sense. Despite all their intellect, though, these people still live in a world that careens about in a series of wild and devastating and completely nonsensical lurches. Great and horrible experiences of either suffering or joy occur in the lives of all of these people, just as with the rest of us, and these mega experiences tend to make us long for a spiritual context in which to express either lament or gratitude, or to seek understanding" - Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray and Love).
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