Victims Of Our Own Success

Why do we do this to ourselves?

Every single day.

We perpetuate the cycle.

It’s self-inflicting.

We present ourselves so perfectly, so flawless.

That the passing glance feels lesser.

Inside we feel lesser.

We feel insignificant.

But we smile and carry on.

Because that’s what we do, not because it’s okay, but because it’s easier.

Years ago, before I started to realise how dangerous this cycle was to myself and those in my circle, I replicated it too.

Today I saw a woman with bags of shopping taking a picture among the city lights of Canary Wharf, back turned so the image could focus on two focal points: the bags and the city lights.

In the last year, especially, I have become quite fascinated by the process of contributing to this cycle.

Companies, governments and wealthy individuals seek to change and infect societies.

But they don’t have to do much apart from cash injection because we do it to ourselves.

The intent and the impact behind and produced by a single post is starkly different.

It’s this distance that creates a lot of our own problems.

Someone’s intent is usually never matched by the viewer’s impact.

Because we don’t care to know what the intent was, and assume nefarious and malignant outcomes, we don’t want to change the inevitability of the system.

I’ve been thinking recently about whether I’d want to make a change in the meta or the micro.

In other words, in governments or in societies.

Both have their problems and influence each other.

However with this longstanding interest in understanding the process of a social media post and knowing the impact of such, it leaves me thinking towards the latter.

It’s actually quite a sad world.

We always have to flaunt our success.

I’m victim of it, we all are at some point.

While I certainly don’t use this blog to balance books, I hope I can take some solace in being human.

To humanity.

Victims Of Our Own Success