I'm suffering from a new addiction. The Facebook addiction. It's like so addictive la. Haha... But upon thinking a bit, it really influences you to place yourself in the center of your life. Sigh... It's not really about other people actually. It's about you, you, you. You want to know what others think about you. Whether you're hot enough, cool enough, popular enough, "expensive" enough, smart enough. Whether people wanted to talk to you, poke you, rate you. The approval and opinion of the millions of imaginary people around you, of whom you probably know less than 0.1% of, can matter so much.
It's amazing what the Internet can do. By bridging people all over the world together, we've become closer to people we don't know living on the other side of the globe, and neglect those closest to us. What happened to camaraderie? Family love? Brotherly cooperation and sisterly chatter? They hardly exist anymore. Where is God in our lives? Or has our social status taken over in the light of the growing individualization in this globalizing world? A simple smile that means so much now cost so much.
I feel that people nowadays need more make-up, more fashion, more body enhancers because of one big problem. We have forgotten how to smile. We have forgotten that the little curve on our lips can make us 150% better looking, that the optimism that comes with it brings to us so much health benefits, that social relations and potential friendships could all be created and improved with that little movement that requires less muscles than a straight face.
Think about it. And smile a little more. Oh, and join Facebook if you have the time. =P
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