I have finally said good bye to the social media. It serves no good. We think that it is doing good to us, killing our boredom, giving us a good time – telling us stories from around the world and allowing the middle class to have a free peep into the lives of the affluents – well this is all a lie. Some commercially-operated evil minds have successfully created a delusional world through this thing called mobile phones – that we have stopped living fully where we are supposed to live.

This has all come as a chain reaction. Now that we don’t fully live where we are meant to live, we have stopped taking the ownership of what we do – and with no ownership, there is no accountability. And when there is no accountability, there are lies and dishonesty – in whatever we do. We think this is alright. But this is a cancer to the human breed. Soon, we will all die for all the misdoings we have been doing with our own hands. No alien is coming to attack the Earth. We are sufficient for ourselves.

Everything in this world is commercial now. And not good commercial – it is bad commercial.

Covid has effed up the mental health of most of the people. Continuous caging at our own home for a longest period of time has brought the abnormalities out of us. Just look around – right after Covid, we were all slapped with inflation. Now that everyone has gone back to work and all of us are working, we are still struggling with getting the basic necessities of life. I don’t get it. Where is the bottleneck now? Which industry has stopped working? Most of the big companies have posted the biggest ever profits in recent times … some things just don’t add up.

Then war started happening… for no reason.

In one part of the world, where Ukraine is fighting for their freedom and doesn’t accept the supremacy of Russia, they are right. All the super powers are supporting them, channelling all the tax payer’s income to Ukraine … because Ukraine is right. Social Media tells us this.

Then in another part of the world, at the same time, another country called Palestine fights for their right. They want their independence and sovereignty and do not accept the involvement of Israel exactly on the same grounds as does Ukraine… but here, quite interestingly, social media tells us that they are wrong and Israel is right. All the same super powers, ladies and gentlemen, are supporting Israel. It is the same time in the universe, similar piece of land, same judges yet, two different verdicts. Is this fair ?

If you are living in 2023, you will see, hear, feel and breath injustice no matter in which part of the world you are. This is such a downfall of humanity in every way.

Depression is becoming a real killer. People are unhappy, always comparing, feeling compromised and then taking decisions in their lives based upon what they have subconsciously seen and accepted in social media. All of a sudden, the delusional world is looking more real – more relatable than the people around us. When will we get to know that we are getting exploited?

We really need to go back to the basics. Playing cricket at the street is still better than playing a PS5 at home. Spending quality time with your real friends is 100 times more therapeutic than aimlessly browsing through the lives of unknown people we don’t know about.

Social Media tells us about the millions of things we don’t have. It tells us that we don’t have a good body, a nice lavish house, a great car, beautiful and well-presented family, and a life full of party. It doesn’t say this outrightly – it shows us what a complete life looks like through the people who have-it-all. And we buy this. This causes depression. This is all fake.

Then I see people religiously following those they don’t like. Sniffing at their day to day moves, hating everything they are doing. I wonder who are they tricking here. To anyone who is reading my blog today, if you really cannot leave social media for any reason, there is a little request. If you have a slightest doubt that you don’t like someone, please unfollow them. You will be in a much better position not knowing what they are doing. And if you are sincerely seeking some peace in your life, boycott social media. At this time, no online media house is providing authentic and true information.

Once we leave social media, we will come back to the literature and arts; good values and intellectual quests. We need to switch off c0mpletely. It is exactly like when your computer gets jammed, you push the power button real hard to reset everything. We really need to reset our direction of life.

Sometimes I wonder that the best era to live and experience life, ended with 1990’s. Great friendships thrived during those times, deeper love stories came into being, science got the best brains, poetry and literature saw the best-in-class breed of humanity. Right now, I don’t even know if there is any living legend in our times.

Ironically, all the awards giving committees are sold to either money or are investing all their efforts to promote the recent trend to stay IN. Actors are getting slapped on the stage at the Oscars and Nobel Peace Prize are awarded to those who are disrupting world peace at their max. ICC is filled with nepotism and soon enough AI will take over all the important roles in a human life.

Nobody is coming to rescue us. Every small step matters. We all need to save humanity. We all need to go back to our basics. And our basics were beautiful.

Until next time!