Page 93 - Failure to Triumph - Journey of A Student

Firstly, let us talk about those things which you should try to avoid as
much as possible.

If you are a Facebook or an Instagram user you should never see
updates of your classmates; you should rather see posts of your
close friends. When you start checking out updates from your
classmates in school or college, you start getting affected by their
posts. Everyone has this habit of showing off on social media- how
happy their life is; and looking at all that makes you a little sad about
your life. Let us assume that there is a boy or a girl you do not like
but they are still in your friend list. You see their posts every day, and

you get unnecessarily affected by looking at how happy they are.
You feel that you are struggling in your career and everyone else is
having fun. To be honest, you don’t need to know what other people
are doing in their lives. Stick to your very close friends. Why do you
have to keep an eye on the lives of others, why do you even want to

know what they are doing? How is it going to help you?

Some people create a lot of groups on WhatsApp—one group for
school friends, another for college friends, one more for friends in the
neighborhood. If you waste your time on this, your mind gets
boggled; you feel as if you are standing on the stage and everyone is
looking at you.

You are not going to build your character or personality by wasting
your precious time on unnecessary chats in WhatsApp groups. You
will have to embrace being alone, you will have to distance yourself
from a lot of people, and you will have to keep your mind unbaffled.
You have no idea how much pressure social media puts on you.

You are always anxious to know- How many people are looking at
your posts? How many friends or followers you have? How many
people liked or commented on your posts? Are your posts portraying
you as someone with a very happy life?

When my father ran into one of his friends after a gap of 15 to 20
years, he had no idea what his friend was doing all this while. But

this had absolutely no impact either on my father's life, or on his