JetUNsetter

Psychologists, zen gurus or just older wiser people who have some things figured out, you will hear them all say not to care about other people’s opinion of you.

Yet, entire industries, capitalism itself and social media are money making machines relying on our need to compare and get approval. So can we survive such mixed and equally powerful message? Is it on us not to care about other people’s opinion or on other people not to compare themselves to us and try and devalue us in the first place?

Why do we even have the need to compare? Lizard brain kind of thing? And growing up and realizing how unnecessary it is why do we keep on doing it?

In fact it’s so troubling to get rid of it. Someone tries to devalue us and we fall in the trap of talking back. That is the very moment we devalued ourselves. We practically left some space for that person and us to think (s)he may be right. And even though we realise that, we keep on…

Luckily, generation Zers got this a little better. Body shaming is rather passé and generation Zers seem to realise that bullying is a disease of the bully not an issue for the bullied. This is clearly a reason to be optimistic and all those years of therapy their parents spent in pay off. But even generation Zers consume, fall victims of fast fashion and post stories on social media to make sure other compare themselves to the image they created for themselves on those posts and feel worse off.

Are we all collectively resisting our happiness and piece of mind because somebody else finds it easy to build a fortune on our human vulnerability. And are they the biggest victim of insecurity and a lizard brain themselves sacrificing their term on Earth to build a fortune and feel better off the rest of us?

Please help me make sense of this one too…