It seems as though my last post hinted at the idea that there is some way to live our lives right. I don't know if there is. It's so hard to explain to yourself that life is just as good or as bad as you make it. Living life on your own terms is the best thing you can do and try as hard as possible to relate it to someone else is who, you think, is living it better than you. Sure, some may find more success than others, some just out of pure luck, but there is always something to enjoy out there. There is always something to feel passionate about, something to pursue. Something that brings you the peace of mind.
As I said before, it's important to not compare your own life to someone else's. In today's day and age, it's becoming really hard not to get sucked up in other's petty facebook, twitter, instagram etc updates that that comparison between our lives and that of our friends is inevitable and often done subconsciously. How often do we see a status that gets too much undeserved attention. We see the "likes", the wonderful comments and we think "Why don't I get that attention?" then we try harder and harder to get that attention, posting pictures, posting statuses in order to get that piece of self-righteous attention. We compare our lives to those who, by evidence of facebook, are living their lives better than us. Facebook is turning us back to self-conscious, attention hogging, pleading, pouting, three year olds. Our statuses are the cry for attention as we hope they get as many thumbs up or as many comments as possible.
On the complete flip-side, the reality shows on tv (MTV, wft?) are getting consistently more bizzare. The reason for that is for the viewers to think "Hey, at least I'm not living my life like that teenager who got knocked up who's getting dumped by her baby-daddy". This is another medium through which we can compare our lives and see whether or not we're living them right.
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