This century should be renamed from 21st century to the SELFIE century :P...Everyone is haunted by this craze of clicking selfies. No one is a stranger to “THE SELFIE CULTURE”. Guess what The Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year 2013 was? No credits if you managed to guess it right. You can spot school going kids clicking selfies, oldies clicking selfies, rag pickers to big business managers clicking selfies. Selfies share a very sweet spot amongst today's youth and a young guy/girl clicking a selfie can be spotted at the drop of a hat.
Even poor beggars are not immune to this culture. The sight of poor beggars in trains, clicking selfies in their leisure time, would leave you mesmerized.
All heights of this selfie culture were scaled by this boy who happened to click a selfie with the dead body of his Grandmother and post it on his timeline saying "sad demise of my Grandmom!!"
These selfies are nothing but memories which everyone wants to preserve. But at the same time they give us a deeper thought that at every moment of our life we are just trying to impress others by showing off what we have and by pretending to possess things that we do not have!!
I don't like this dress, It's uncomfortable But I will wear it to impress him/her. I don't like to go to bars and pubs but if I go I might be in the limelight in my friend circle. I like to join hands and pray to God at holy places but I won't do that because that might be out of fashion and people may not like it....and the list goes on!!
Ultimately ,such a life to just impress others will leave a person in frustration and nothing more than that.
Let us dig deeper into this reality and try to understand its behavioral aspect. Why do we want to impress others...?? because we feel that will get happiness!
The biggest question is - Can I impress everyone around me?? Everytime?? If not then how will I be happy? So is this the correct source of happiness???
Some day instead of clicking "selfie with others" we should think about clicking a "selfie with self" - trying to understand the needs of our body and soul! Excavating and relishing the deeper meaning of life and source of eternal happiness which is within us and not anywhere outside. This will enable us to live a blissful life without any constraints that we may otherwise subject ourselves to while impressing others. All this is possible only by self-realization - that is - by clicking some "Selfies with self"!
--Kartikeya Dasa
E-Counselor
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