Twlight- boa
Today I'm experiencing the psychedelic effects of foreshortened future syndrome. Unfortunately, I think this is an emotion our generation is too aware of and has been made more pressing as we face the Screentime vs Real life pandemic- that basically is shaming people for scrolling too much and creating this fear that we are missing out on such a basic level of life.
I definitely think there are pros and cons to this ideology,
because it is important to receive a good sip of fresh air but I think it's unfair to shame people who primarily create art using technology- It feels hypocritical to have someone who probably spent 3+ hours on a TikTok telling me "I'm wasting my life" by literally watching there TikTok... and it makes the whole balancing life seem impossible.
When being on social moves to the toxic side it is primarily due to the falsification of life.
EX. People have gotten to this point where they only go out with you for a picture and then they plaster all over the media to make it seem like it was a #killertime, yet they barely said one thing to you... idk if I'm just wacky cuz I'm huge on respect but there's nothing that makes a person feel grosser than having a stranger capitalize on your existence for the sole purpose of making their feed look #fetch. (Chloe you just hawt!! and I hope I won't come across as if I am capitalizing on ur beauty)
I just feel like we get this huge fomo because the falsification makes us romanticize having unique experiences while simultaneously keeping us sucked in so have to walk a tight rope of missing out online vs missing out on the rare parts of life.
Idk- I got very off-topic
"You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."
Today I'm experiencing the psychedelic effects of the foreshortened future syndrome because I recently witnessed something very f*cking disturbing. And I had this moment where I just kept estranging myself from the people around me and filling my head with the top-charting phrase "I'M JUST A GIRL". And it got me thinking about what the phrase actually meant and how it has manipulated the way I think past just being a meme. There was a violent offense that happened and I didn't do anything because I felt powerless. And in that powerless moment, I justified it for just being a f*cking girl pathetic ...
Like I get so sick of consuming shit online that I just start to change my whole thought process behind my belief system and the media is so unfairly catered to people where haft of the people aren't even receiving the same information. IT JUST FEELS IMPOSSIBLE!!! and I just feel so drained from the fuck up shit I see and it's getting to a point where it feels like too much like idk how many more times I have to mutter "Yeah yk its just LIFE!" in response to people just showing basic manners.
A foreshortened Future is "where people feel or believe their life will be cut short without any concrete explanation."
CLOSING NOTES:
I will say I'm in a much better situation and if I was in the same mindset I had, I'd probably lose it for the last time. But it like comforting now to recognize that fucked up shit is happening but there are also like really beautiful things happening. Idk it's comforting that Foreshorten Future is an actual mindset that other people have and the fact it's only a response because you've experienced life so intensely that you fear it being taken away from you at any moment is slightly beautiful.
I hope you all are doing well and taking care of yourself. I think as someone who posts so much on social media even with my small circle of viewers it important to admit to human behaviors and remind people that life isn't always perfect. I think we owe it to the community!
xoxo much l*ve,
katbird02
