Who cares man?

Who cares man?

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Who cares man?

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Seriously?

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Who cares about you?

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Who cares about your life?

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Your family.

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Your friends.

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Sure.

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But does the world?

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No.

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It doesn’t.

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You are a speck.

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A piece of dust.

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A grain of sand.

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A consciousness floating in a body.

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You are but a number.

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One of many billions.

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So no one cares.

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No one.

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Social media has made it out that everyone has to care about everything.

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You don’t.

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You don’t have to.

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You don’t have to pay attention to what other people think of you.

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And yet we all do.

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Social media has given us this incredible tool.

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And a horrible algorithm that destroys your self-esteem.

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Destroys your self-worth.

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Destroys you.

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Every day, you’re constantly comparing.

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Constantly.

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Always thinking.

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Always watching.

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Always paying attention to what other people are thinking.

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Your posting a story hoping someone will see it.

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Or posting a pic that you spend hours editing only for it to get not as many likes as you thought.

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Your checking your phone after every notification.

Waiting for that little sense of gratification to fill your soul.

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But it doesn’t.

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It’s hollow.

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Here one day.

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Gone the next.

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I saw this Twitter post recently.

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It was about this guy.

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He went to see his friends.

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One of them had a dinner party.

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So they all sat down.

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And asked him.

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Hey dude, why did you quit social media?

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Because one day, he just quit.

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Disappeared.

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Gone.

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Off the face of the earth, according to his friends.

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But he said something profound.

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If I want to see my friends, I’ll pick up the phone and call them.

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Or text them.

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That way I’m actually speaking to them and being in their life.

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Rather than substituting a like for friendship.

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Oooooof.

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So good.

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We have used social media as a substitute for friendship.

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We are supposed to be more connected than ever.

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And yet the average individual is lonelier than ever.

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Especially in the West.

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In the East, you grow up with community.

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It’s built into you.

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Built into your culture.

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Built into your religion.

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Community is where you go.

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But in the West, that has faded.

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Feels like since the trickle-down economics of the Reagan days in the 80s, everything in the West has been about accumulation.

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About making money.

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About hoarding money.

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About the individual rather than the collective.

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And social media has only amplified it.

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It feels like we’re connected to the world when we’re scrolling right?

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Like we’re participating?

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Actively showing up in the world?

That’s a lie that’s being fed to you by these platforms.

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All they care about is eyeballs.

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How long can they keep you hooked on the platform.

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We are a society of addicts.

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And there’s no way out.

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The addiction has become so normal that if you opt out, you’re seen as weird.

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Or strange.

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But here’s the thing you have to burn into your brain.

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None of these people care about you.

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None of them.

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Maybe your close friends.

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Maybe your family.

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But that’s it.

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Even them, they’ll think about you for a second.

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Then move on.

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We’re all too trapped in our own heads.

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Trapped in our own minds.

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Trapped in our own algorithms.

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We think the world we see on a screen is the real world.

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It’s part of the real world.

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But it’s also nothing like it.

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You have to remember.

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Real life happens in reality.

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Directly what’s in front of you.

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Not what’s happening inside a screen.

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So instead of watching other people live life, why don’t you live yours?

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You only have one.

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Confucius said.

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‘We have two lives. The second begins when we realize we only have one.’

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So stop wasting it on your phone.

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Stop wasting it scrolling.

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Stop wasting it performing for people who don’t care about you.

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Focus on yourself.

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Focus on you.

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Focus on living the best life you can.

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Then you’ll say the same thing as me.

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Who cares man?

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