I sit, there, like a trapped monkey, holding tight to what appears to be a piece of gold. Refusing to let it go. I am imprisoned with one hand on my phone unable to release my grip, as I watch my life slip away. Sometimes I don’t even watch. Instead, I focus on my hand, with a phone firmly in its grasp, and lose my life to oblivion.
How long, I wonder, how much time in this life, have I forfeited? Just a few minutes here and there, but has it been hours? Days? Even years now, that I gave to nothingness?
Where we once found joy and success, we now see only our failures and inadequacies as we compare ourselves and all the struggles and challenges which we know are present in our life to the perfection someone else is presenting to us. We are comparing our reality with someone’s cropped and filtered life–a view where all the mess, struggle and failure is carefully hidden away.