Lost and found
I found an Apple Watch on the street here in Chiang Mai, Thailand the other day. Hoping that the owner was still nearby and that I could contact him, I sat down at the nearest café. Within ten minutes, the watch was returned to a very happy and grateful owner.
A pleasant feeling of having made someone happy through a good deed. A perfect moment to linger in, but then the thoughts started coming…
"I should share this on social media!"
A natural impulse in today's society, but the feeling in my body was the exact opposite - unnatural. It was a mixture of stress and excitement, and not at all pleasant. As if the future had already arrived mentally, and there was an expectation of how it would unfold.
This is often the case with social media - at least for me - where the (imaginary) future unfolds at the expense of the present. The here and now is diluted. And besides, the future rarely unfolds the way we imagined it.
Is the solution to delete all your social media accounts? No, of course not.
It’s very individual how we use and manage our accounts. For some, it’s not a "problem" at all. It lies dormant, only coming to life every now and then. Great!
However, if you recognize yourself in what I described, it may at least be worth to think things over. Personally, I have chosen to delete everything, at least for the time being.
What’s best for you, only you know.