In this digital world where words and photos practically leak out of computer and phone screens, disrupting reality, it’s simple to become disheartened and darkened. It is so easy to compare one’s self to others online and think you should do what they do too.
After all, everyone is someone on the internet. Every other person is an influencer, every person is suddenly an Instagram model, and your neighbor is suddenly television star. This is the sort of information you can know, but wouldn’t pay so much attention to if it wasn’t on your screen every time you opened up a web browser.
There is nothing wrong with them, the people behind the glowing faces on the Facebook walls, there is no blame on them and their success. But equally so, there is no blame on you.
For if you look at others’ achievements only, you’ll never get ahead. More over than that, not everyone HAS to achieve something immense to be a valuable person. There's this perception, this lie, that in order to live a meaningful life one has to achieve something grandiose, and if one hasn't done that his or her life is meaningless. I find that belief to be false.
I saw a post of one of my wisest teachers from high school reviewing a movie once. It went along the lines of this: a movie doesn't have to be profoundly groundbreaking or extraordinary in order to be a good and an enjoyable movie. I thought about it and realized this can be applied to human life as a whole in general.
A life's quality should not be judged by a resume of extraordinary achievements.
Truthfully, it doesn't matter what the person wants to do in their life. What matters is that whatever they, no- whatever you do makes you happy. That's success. If you're chasing your dream, don't be discouraged by someone else's success, and don't think your dream is wrong because it doesn't pertain to fame or changing lives.
Whatever you do-
... Just never forget that you matter.
Everyone and everything matters, and that's what makes the little videography of films about each and every person's dreams we call our world so special.
