Page 95 - Failure to Triumph - Journey of A Student

Another bad habit which you inherit from social media is to seek the
approval of others on everything that you do. You will start posting
only those kind of posts on which people will like or comment, and

give you importance. You will think at least 50 times before
uploading a photograph-‘am I looking good enough?’ Once you start
doing this you will neither be able to develop your personality nor
your character. Whenever you will look at other people’s
photographs or videos who are better-looking than you, you will
develop inferiority complex. You would want to look like them and
have many followers like they have. These people will become idols
for you and you will want to become like them. You will start feeling

that your life is average— ‘so many people ask about them and care
for them but nobody asks about me. I don’t exist for anyone’—this is
all that you will think.

You might have made 1,000 friends on social media, but how many

of them are actually going to turn up when you are in need? First of
all, you make friends online for no valid reason, then you end up
spending a lot of time and energy talking to them, and when the
attraction peters out, you start looking for new friends. Why must a
stranger get to know you? Why do you have to send friend request
to unknown people of the opposite sex hoping that they will also talk
to you? And if they accept your request, you will spend hours talking

to them. You do not have enough time for your parents, but you have
all the time for all these new people!

You do not have enough time to read any self-help books which may
help in personality development; you do not have time to learn a new
skill; neither do you have any time to read new books and get new

knowledge, nor do you have any time for fulfilling your dreams and
aspirations. All that you are bothered about is what others are doing.
You waste all your time in criticising others, or getting jealous of
them. You waste a lot of time discussing political issues, and you
even start using curse words. You start hating those people whose
thoughts or opinions do not match with yours, you start trolling
people, and you behave as if you have no consciousness or morale.

You do not have enough courage to have a fair debate with others,