Let’s post everything on Facebook

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Let’s post everything on Facebook.

 Ambia Bhurt

Remember the time when life was simple? Where happiness meant playing kho kho, baraf pani, chupan chupai , You had to wait for weekends to go out with family to have fun at your favorite amusement park. Where raining meant not posting on Facebook but actually going outside with the friends and enjoying. Where 14^th August meant to paint faces with Pakistani flag, decorating streets, houses with flags and celebrating it with friends, family and teachers. Now 14^th August means making your profile pictures green, posting patriotic stuff and sleeping on a holiday. Our life styles have changed a lot since then, now our happiness lies in posting food we eat, the places we visit, the brands we wear, posting pictures taken specially from DSRL cameras with fake smiles, posting how happy we are and  how perfect and luxurious our lives are.

Deep down we all know that we are faking it because we want to win the race on Facebook of “being the happiest and successful person in our friend list”. This has led to nothing but inferiority complex, depression, jealousy, anxiety and ingratitude among us. We lack in communicating with each other. We lack in celebrating our happiness and sadness together. We are less interested in caring others and more interested in ourselves, we try to leave an impression on others by looking smart, witty, interesting by hiding our true selves. Our only motive in life is to be cooler than our friends. This is leading us to more destruction, we are becoming less confident, depressed and losing our self-esteem because we are always comparing our lives to our friends who are more successful, who are spending their holidays at better places than we are, who are studying in a top university, who are happy in a new relationship, who have more number of friends on Facebook than we have, who are prettier/handsome than us. But the question is are their lives really that perfect? Are they really that successful and flawless? Well the answer is NO. Nobody is perfect nobody is living a perfect life, everyone has flaws everyone has ups and downs in life but people chose to post the good things about their lives not the bad things. The concept of social comparison is very old. The gist is, human nature can make us jealous or depressed by the perceived successes and happiness of those closest to us. So if Facebook is making you sad, depressed you don’t need to stop using it altogether. Just be mindful of how you're spending your time on the site. Stop comparing and complaining. So what if you didn’t get to study in a top university, you can still work hard and get a better job. So what if you don’t have a lot of friends at least you’ve the real ones. So what if you didn’t get to visit an exotic place on holidays you still had some quality time with your family. Stop complaining and start appreciating your life. Be thankful to what you’ve and start utilizing your inner abilities in something good and positive.

Ambia 2k13/MC/12 

Second Semester August 2015 
This practical work was carried out under supervision of Sir Sohail Sangi