🚀 Finding happiness in a world driven by flex culture
Happiness is the ultimate emotion.
Everybody has their own opinion on what makes them happy.
It could be anything from money, love, fame, power etc.
The issue with finding happiness in the 21st century is that society has managed to base it on external validation derived from metrics or materialistic goods.
It is crazy that we are willing to go into debt to purchase a product so irrelevant to our personalities all for the sake for some extra likes, compliments and validation from people who don’t even care about you.
This is heightened because of “flex culture” where people flaunt their materialistic goods to the world and essentially rub it in everybody’s faces.
The root cause for all of these disappointing acts is comparison.
Here’s the thing;
The flawed algorithm of social media only shows you all the “highs” of people’s lives because that’s what we feed into the system.
You see pictures of people inside;
Yachts (Rental for sure)
Expensive jewelry stores (Just because they’re in them, doesn’t mean they’ve bought anything)
Massive houses (Again, probably not theirs.)
It is so incredibly easy to paint a rosy curated gallery of your life on any social media platform and hide the dark reality of your life.
And knowing that, what do we consistently do?
Fall for that rosy trap every single time as we compare ourselves with complete strangers on a smartphone.
Let us break things down.
Why do we compare ourselves with these strangers in the first place?
We just want *more* in life. *senseless materialistic items.
We are total suckers for external validation.
We are blinded by the idea that materialistic goods lead to a “happy” life.
Now what does all this comparison lead to you ask?
An uncontrollable desire to gain clout. (AKA digging a hole for yourself until life hits you in the head with a shovel)
These two words have singlehandedly screwed over an entire generation of young adults which is why I equally despise both of them.
Let’s be honest here.
We desire things only because we want to be desired by other people who are victims to the same rosy trap as well. So in turn, we invest in “clout” so that our social status increases which is the most absurd thing.
If you focus on the top ten wealthiest people on the planet, chances are you don’t even know what they do with their money because they’re so lowkey about it.
And even if it’s on the news or on social media then that isn’t them bragging to us because they know better. We’re just sickos addicted to pondering about what we don’t have and envious of other people’s success.
Ok so, what is this life hitting you in the head with a shovel moment?
It is when you realize all of the following;
You’ve lost the ability to make genuine connections with people.
Everything has always revolved around you and not others.
Life becomes like a sales pitch with every encounter with a stranger.
There is a void in your life that cannot be filled by materialistic things.
Once you have made peace with the fact that it is absolutely worthless wasting your time trying to impress people that don’t even care about you in the first place then I promise you happiness becomes a lot less far fetched than you think.
Next time someone else starts “flexing” on you then know that they aren’t wealthy to begin with.
Over and out Zoomers :)
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