Let me set the scene. It's Saturday night. You went out last night, you have homework and a headache, and nothing sounds more appealing than putting on your pajamas and watching Netflix. So, you decide to not go out. You get comfortable under a blanket and you feel like all is right in the world. And then you check Facebook. And you begin to wonder, are all your friends having fun without you? Does staying in tonight make you lame?
We are children of the FOMO generation. We have access to everyone else's lives at our finger tips, and we frequently find ourselves watching snapchats or looking at instagrams and wondering how people seem to be doing all of these cool things.
But stop right there. You're overthinking it. The other day, as I was sitting at Starbucks, I heard three girls talking about how much they didn't want to go out that night, but that they felt like they'd seem uncool if they didn't. When did we become so obsessed with what other people think of our plans? And, more importantly, when did how much we go out define how we're viewed?
So you don't want to go out tonight. That's okay. It is completely acceptable to want to curl up in warm pajamas and recuperate from the long week you've had. Or maybe you didn't have a long week and you feel like vegging out, that's okay too. You aren't going to miss anything by skipping a party in favor of your well-being or simply because you don't want to go. If people think it's uncool of you to stay in, then those probably aren't the people you should be surrounding yourself with anyway.
FOMO is something that has taken over the lives of our generation and completely consumed our thoughts when we aren't doing something as cool as the next person. But we have to be able to take a step back and remember that we're living our lives and other people are living theirs. For some, an adventure is going to be climbing a mountain, and for others, maybe it's spending the day laughing with friends. Whatever it may be, we should leave the FOMO at the door and get back to enjoying our lives however we want to live them.
My whole point is, you should be doing whatever makes you happy. If that's going out every night, then great. If that's staying in more often than you go out, that's okay too. At the end of the day, you should be doing whatever makes you the happiest, because, lets be honest, that's all that matters anyway.
