‘FOMO’s Answer to ‘JOMO’s’ & Homoeopathy
We currently live in two worlds. Real and Virtual World.
In the real world, there are many factors that cause loneliness. But is it something in the virtual world that can lead to loneliness?
Before the marriage of Mrinali and Sameer completed a year, they started expecting a baby. Both of them were not really Mentally prepared. They wanted to travel a lot, spend time with each other. But waiting for the happiness that came in the house after the baby’s birth, they decided to bring the baby into this world.
It took Mrinali the eighth month and exactly that month her class ‘Reunion’ at school came. No one in the house would allow her to go there in such a difficult condition. As the day of ‘Reunion’ drew closer, the chatter on their WhatsApp group was increasing. What color ‘theme’, ‘what dress’, discussion of cultural events, small and big sweet quarrels, disputes, memories, chidwachidvi…
Mrinali used to sit at home and read everything restlessly. When her husband came home at night, she used to get angry with him for one reason or another. It came to her Mind, how much fun all these people will have together…. When will the ‘Reunion’ happen again?…. This time, everyone in the school had spent so much time together. Her special group of friends were understanding her situation. But no one told her, ‘You too join ! (लाडिक)was not insisting. She used to think, “Why am I pregnant now !”
She would check the group above, look at the photos, check if anyone is saying anything about her, and then sit alone and cry in frustration. In-mean ten-fifteen minutes would pass before this cycle would start again.
Mrinali’s condition can be called Social Anxiety in a way. But in today’s language it is called ‘Fomo’ (Fear of Missing out). This ‘Fomo’ is closely related to loneliness.
What other people are getting, other people’s lives are going on, something very exciting is going on, but I’m not there. I’m not getting this one….
Modern social media is the biggest contributor to ‘Fomo’. Someone is constantly posting something or the other on social media. When you see those posts, the ‘Fomo’ becomes more intense. Previously, we used to know what was going on in someone’s life only in the case of people close to us. Now even a villager in India can see the ‘Disney World’ of America.
But, “We think people are enjoying themselves outside! Nothing like this is happening in our life.”
Brinda, a final year engineering student, came to me for Homoeopathic Treatment at “Chaitanya Clinic”. She said at the very beginning, “I am going to tell you the truth without being shy.”
She was the top-ranking girl in the class. It was happy till now. But after seeing everyone, she felt like she didn’t enjoy the party. She used to feel very uncomfortable seeing all this, that we are not in any group, this is the ‘Enjoyment’ of the youth. Why don’t they study ? Why am I the only one here ? Her heart beat would rise, she would cry in this situation Loneliness was giving away.
The unabashed thing to say about it was that, ‘She wanted all these cars to break down on the road, they would lose money, something would happen and their party would be cancelled. She was very ashamed of this feeling without ‘Fomo’. If we don’t get it, no one should get it’, this thought in her mind was bringing her down from her own eyes.
Because she admits it all honestly, not because others feel the same way about ‘Fomo’, but they don’t necessarily accept it with open arms.
The market is also not as straightforward as it used to be. It is studded with many domestic and foreign objects; Rather than saying it is lame ! Money is loose in the hands of many people. Therefore, every day someone or someone, something or the other creates new Themes.
The main thing is that there are cameras with maximum pixels, social media to post the photos taken. Is money actually going out of pocket to do all this? (It goes indirectly though for sure). Then post a photo without compromise !
After seeing the photos of the couple who went to Bali for their honeymoon, the couple who went to Mahabaleshwar gets ‘Fomo’.
- Aren’t we the only ones who went on honeymoon in India?…
- Are we missing out on something for life ?
- When everyone will meet and talk about this, will we feel alone ?
- Can’t you connect with them ?
- And here the feeling of not being connected with society leads to LONELINESS & NERVOUSNESS. Tomorrow someone will leave Bali and go to a village in India for their honeymoon at Tumdar Resort.
- You will think back, “Oh, did I “miss” this village atmosphere, Gavran Mewa, nature? ” What to run behind?
When a little boy has fun, his mother does not let him go downstairs to play as punishment. He sits watching the match of his friends in the ground below from the gallery helplessly (Bapda). He also feels the same, ‘Are we getting lonely ? Everyone is having fun. Did you miss today’s game ? He wanders around the Gallery restlessly, just like the child in us does in ‘Fomo’.
We check social media Multiple times. He makes himself a hero by seeing the happiness of others. The siege keeps insisting that I want this.
- If you don’t want to let this ‘Fomo’. lead to loneliness, restlessness, what will a mother tell her child ?
- “Don’t scroll through the gallery 100 times if you feel bad ! “Similarly, we need to stop scrolling through social media.
‘We don’t have what others get’ is the feeling felt by most of those who engage heavily in social media. For some, it’s a journey of first feeling bad, then feeling left out, and then a deepening loneliness.
Accepting the fact that you won’t get everything others have, the good news may be that you’ve got something different that they haven’t. But we don’t see it in social media!
In the language of youth, the answer to ‘Fear of Missing Out’ is ‘ Joy of Missing Out’ – ” Jomo “. ” Jomo “ teaches us to live here and now. In short, it teaches to live in the present.
“Jomo” has neither regrets about the past nor worries about the future. There is joy in enjoying what the moment brings, which is easily possible with Homoeopathic Treatment.