So in life, we all have certain things that we do, and the outcomes of those tasks are such that we never wanna do again nor advise anyone to do that. Overexciting things leave marks that sustain over a period of time, like a lifelong lesson. Have you had such experiences? Yes or no, hear me out then….
Today's one is gonna be like that, I will be sharing something that has left me upside down. This one was triggered from another community prompt, so I thought of going freestyle.
So it was around the end of 2022 that I had accomplished a dream of mine, a dream that most of the boys possess. What was that? That's less important to focus on; coming up on that soon. So, out of excitement, I made overwhelming posts on social media, flexing with my achievement. Not to make anyone jealous, but with the general intention. But yeah, I went far, clicking photos almost every day or tomorrow, adding them to the stories that lasted 24 hours but had a bigger reach to my audience.
What was that? My dream PC, a gaming setup. I have talked about this long, long ago, with different aspects, not with the angle I will be talking about now, because the results are experienced now, not back then.
The white desk, gaming rig on the desk, dual monitor setup, one was curved, mechanical keyboard, RGB mousepad, gaming mouse, and minimalistic cable management, with the RGB strip and room's light off, what an aesthetic vibe it was! That was something that I had achieved too early to realise the depth. Of what? Of the life that was yet to be experienced, the wild ones.
I barely played games on this; I mostly watched movies and so on. I did almost everything that I used to do with my potato pc. Oh yeah, the only difference is, while watching movies, I would go to Netflix, turn on my RGBs, and take an aesthetic click to share on social media. It was a stunt to showcase that I am watching a movie or TV series, as well as my setup.
On my friend list, there were only a few who could have gotten such rigs, and mostly blank. So whenever I could put them on social media, I could feel the air, sense the reactions.
So, instead of going round and round, let me disclose what has caused the damage. That's evil eyes, yeah, the jealous people who cannot digest the achievements of others' success or good things. Yeah, we have tons of such people around us. With your bare eyes, you won't see them.
But on other days, you won't notice, only with the things that are dear to you.
Over the time span, I have seen things going down, only downwards. It is like all the good things kept fading away, and I'm also going down. Sometimes we do fix a few things, but in reality, the damage is done pretty badly. You know what, I don't possess the setup anymore; it vanishes, little by little. Not the lifestyle I used to possess as well. All are faded away to the thing aware.
There were a few who were jealous of my progress, very kind to me, yet they could never digest the fact that I was doing well. I used to realise these, but never thought it would be acting like a slow poison that eventually erases everything. My good days kept fading away, hard ones coming one after another, struggling as the closest companion. Now? You can see the situations like from the peak to the ground, more is yet to come. Like, beneath the mud is yet to go. Come on! Looking at the downfall, I too got frustrated and said, “Go fu**** yourself. Will see whatever comes in a more disastrous way than this."
So, if I am to advise you, “Never share things on social media.” You've got tons of friends, but the true ones are rare. All will be just jealous of your achievement. From there, I came down to almost none. Also saw such impacts of evil eyes back then as well. It's true, I bet you have sensed such things around you as well, if not actually, then you are a lucky man. It's like a mental disease to me, like, "Why on earth will you get envy with someone else's achievements? Is this something that was taken from you? No."
So yeah, this was it, my mistake of the life nomination and piece of advice. Once again, share only a fraction of your stuff, filter out the stuff that may trigger the evil eyes pretty badly. Come on, man, I'm the sufferer and can't blame anyone individually; rather, this is what happens in this mass of people, not everyone can digest the good of others.
So be careful of what you share!