GOOD BYE VIRTUAL WORLD

IMPORTANCE OF LIFE BEYOND SOCIAL MEDIA

Life as it comes is not that easy sometimes. We make a lot of changes as per the people and our surroundings and/or  adapt accordingly.

 

I have always wanted to do something productive but felt that something has been missing or somehow I am  distracted.

 

So finally I  decided that I am going to work on things that distract me. Avoid everything that's not helpful and give my mind some sort of peace.

 

So, starting today, I decided to switch off my Mobile phone and complete all the incomplete tasks that I  have been trying to finish over the last few months. Now is the time. Its time to take charge of my life, ,start doing something that can declutter the mind. Organize everything and start being healthy.

 

 

I remember how my addiction began when I joined Facebook a decade ago, sometime in December 2009. I wasn't that much active there, but I surely started loving the Virtual world and somehow ended up in lot of fake promises, whether its work or relationship.

 

Anyways, I lost my job but gladly connected with the film industry cuz of Facebook. Somehow, it was a gentle break after losing my job.

 

However, the real ordeal began, when I installed WhatsApp around November 2011.

I was in a relationship. Yes,  the guy, ,I was dating was the one,  who I met through Facebook.

He broke up with me just a month later, on my birthday, i.e. Dec 4th.

 

Well that wasn't the reason for me to get addicted to WhatsApp chatting.

 The real reason came a lot later. 6 months after my breakup, i.e. June 2012, I got very active on WhatsApp and Facebook.

Facebook was the platform where a lot of guys kept reaching out to me for dating and promising work in events.

 

Oh yes, I became an anchor after I lost my job in 2010. So I found a lot of people from the Bollywood industry there and since my ex was into modelling, I decided to work in the fashion or film industry, to kind of prove to him that I am better than him, cuz I don't give up.

 

So yeah that's how the journey to the internet addiction began.Slowly, I started joining other social media platforms, went on live streams and garnered a lot of good attention cuz of the funniness on my live streams

 I always wanted to withdraw myself. Cuz I was losing out on the time, where  I wanted to do something productive, free my soul from the disillusioned world. But the more I try to pull myself away, the more I was getting into it. It seemed like a never ending effort. I got deeply entangled  into the web.

 

My mind, my body ,my soul, all seemed as if it were, a slave to the social Media. My hunger to get attention, to stay connected with people, to  find someone to live life with,  grew stronger and stronger.

 

I was completely an addict.

 

In 2016, I found another relationship (Online). Felt like that was  the answer to all my prayers.

My focus on him and the constant travels to his city, kind of let me get out of Facebook. I started focussing on my emceeing work.

 

As the days passed, I stopped using Facebook & a couple more platforms and got a lot more closer to only  WhatsApp.

 

One fine day the new relationship turned out to be the most dreadful heartbreak. All thanks to Social Media, cuz the more the internet offers, a lot of cheating in relationships grow.

The virtual world seemed demeaning to me, I lost my time, my love, my trust, my career, money, happiness,  everything.

What once seemed to give me life was now the end of my true happiness.

I could have found a genuine relationship, If only I had focussed on real people, instead of online fakesters.

I could have a good career, if only,  I had focussed on giving more interviews.

I could have achieved a lot of things instead of just being a Hippie.

 I could see what I had lost and what now others are trying to achieve in this superficial virtual world.

 

My desperate desires to cut off from the virtual world, made me lose popularity. People no longer were following me or they don't even remember who I was .

 

Its heart breaking. The one place I invested or rather say wasted  my time is no longer a piece of cake for me.

However, the good part is , I am now free. I look up at the sky and can see how beautifully blue it is.

The gentle breeze touches me in somewhat teasing way, as if saying that "finally, you're here".

 

I am enjoying this new found peace. I am free for the web of lies, destruction & fake promises.

 

I am just me and with myself now.

I am a New Human Being .

 

  #Roop Aggarwal