The Pressure To Become "Rich"; Social Media Lessons 101
In this post here I talked about a certain psycological phenomenon about money and how it often affects how people view it. In reality, the social media has become an agent of pressure, more than socialisation itself.
This means that you have more people who are being pressured by the pictures they see, the videos they watch, the blogs they read on maybe facebook or twitter on the amount of money being embezzled by politicians and how mere seeing the zeros behind these billions can make them feel like instant failures. In reality, I don't think "hardwork" makes people rich. "Smart work" is what does. But people who makes it through "smart work" makes you think hardwork is their secret. But then you've been working hard your entire life and it feels like nothing.
Classes of Sucessful People On The Internet
The feeling of having "nothing", is what eventually brings envy. Sometimes we fail tk see the dividends of our hardwork because people who seem to make more money makes it seem easy. While we have people who naturally makes money easily, we have people who are into illegal stuffs but front their money through legitimate venture making it seem like being an entrepreneur is like being in kindargaten.
While we have those who originally have nothing, but live expensive on the Internet to create a ruse that they're really wealthy. These last set of people are the ones who fakes it but eventually never makes it Why? Because they're busy showing how wealthy they seem and missing out on life opportuinities to do better. A lot of people are often envious of these set of people without cause, thereby creating unnecessary pressure.
The Forbes list, most influential young men, the richest men's list, luxury cars bought by footballers, Floyd Mayweather's collection of cars and a lot of other stuffs are what we wake up to the moment we browse the internet. These things have become what we see on a daily basis. We see the success, we don't even get to see the process or the procedure, because this will give us hope and as well remind us that while a lot of people are wealthy, the means, the process and the time they've given in might be something we're incapable of.
For example, I use to work on a micro sourcing website for maybe 30 cents per day. A lot of people felt I was crazy spending maybe 2 hours of my time a day to earn 30 cent. To me, it wasn't the money. I need to always make myself realise that money making is difficult Irrespective of how different the internet paints it.
The Hoax Behind "The Cost"
In my experience, I've seen too much of pressure and it's effect to let it move me. People take about 100 pictures and only post one, maybe where they're having an expensive drink or eating an expensive crab dish, a costly biryani or having a swim in the jacuzzi. It feels like their regular lifestyle, but then maybe it's something they do once in a year. You never know, but the effect on some people would go a long way.
Truth is, some people post these things to seem or look successful, maybe they're still grinding or hustling for the dollar. This isn't always true but sometimes true. Whether you're pressured rightly or pressured wrongly. Pressure to conform to the ideology that making money can be easier that it seems isn't always a mindset we should cultivate.
At the end of the day, a lot of people will make my entire network in a day but this isn't my concern my aim is to be comfortable and financially free to an understand extent and not really to be wealthy persay. My view about making money hasn't changed; some will have it illegitimately easy while some others too will have it legitimately easy.
At the end of the day, no one should make another person feel like making money is easy because generally it's not. To me, there's I don't see any money making venture as being too little or too small. Sometimes the ability to see means in anything prospectful is how we eventually get to build. We all need resilience and patience at some point. Thank you for reading, I hope you have learnt.
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My name is @Josediccus, a young Nigerian student who is a Vlogger, A Psychologist, Poet And Sports Writer/Analyst. I'm using my contents as a process to create shared meaning as well as create expressions through which people on/off hive can relate. I believe content is a process to be enjoyed and relished and I'm up for any collaborations in my field stated above. Cheers
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