In this social media era, our lives are constantly being inundated with tons of information, stories, and axioms that affect the way we think about ourselves, other people, our society, and life.

For example, while scrolling through your timeline, say Twitter or Facebook, you stumble on a student’s post which is about celebration of his admission into a university abroad, and something nudges you that it could have as well been you. It is not that you have not been trying your best to get admitted into a university abroad, the time is just yet to come.

But this news that you stumble upon, this student that you may not know from Adam and his announcement have shifted the way you see yourself, especially when you have seen multiple rejections in the past months.

Now, this student may have had his shares of failure, but he, because of time and the desire to bury them for good, refrains from writing about them. You know how typical this trend has become of our lives, how we all paint and project the best versions of ourselves to outsiders.

The roaring doubts, existential crisis, multiple rejections, feelings of inadequacies, perennial struggles, and other associated thoughts that bedevil his life are not what he may like or feel comfortably to write about when sharing his success story.

https://newsroundtheclock.com/what-social-media-is-not-telling-us-about-success/