There is a strong pull from social media to grab our attention and drive us to one side of an extreme belief.
Most of the time, a person’s form of escapism is to either succumb, or to drown out those thoughts by filling their brain with even more alluring media.
Watching other people’s lives flash before our eyes makes us not have to think about our own, and the possibility of conflict or decisions.
Escapism is fine until it controls one’s life: We can’t wake up in the morning without immediately going on our phone and scrolling before we have to get out of bed. Or we can’t sit and eat anything without watching YouTube because we might start thinking of things that we have to do and stressing out about them instead of just doing them.
But let’s say we decide to exercise our free will and fight for what we believe in. What good would that do when there appear to be millions of people going against our beliefs? What would family members, who might not hold the same beliefs, think?
So maybe not.
Should we just stick to schoolwork and thinking about college while an online war appears to be raging over important political decisions, our wellbeing, our future?
A new dilemma seems to present itself every day. The world begs us to fight for something or become something, but when did all of this get so complicated?
Are we supposed to worry about an ACT score, or a credit score? Are we trailing behind our peers in core classes? Or do we even need to worry about that stuff anymore? Should we try to fight for our beliefs instead?
It feels like all that “living” is asking of us right now is one giant question: How should we live our lives? To be honest, there is no real answer and there never will be.
There is no right or wrong way to live, and life is not meant to be a question with an answer. The only thing we can really do is work for what makes it meaningful to us.
