I get embarrassed when I share my music with someone for the first time. It is easier to be honest with myself about things when I just write my thoughts and feelings down and put them in a song. But then, when it comes time to release the song I come to an interesting cross roads. Do I follow through and release it, putting myself fully out there for the world to judge and criticize, or do I back out and continue to keep my feels to myself?
I’ve felt a similar feeling with social media. For so long I have longed for more and more friends and followers, but the more people I find myself connected to the more pressure I also feel. I even get to a point where I feel that I can’t even post something without accidentally offending someone, so instead I just stay silent. Would I start to lose followers if I spoke up more? Would people get mad to realize that I am bias and that I can be rude and offensive at times? Do I need to cater myself to be a more accepting person so that more people will like me? Or would more people like me if I was simply genuine?
I think being genuine is becoming a more rare thing in our online community. There is too much pressure to be accepted and liked. In reality, we should be putting effort into just being ourselves, because otherwise are we really even happy? I think people feel the need to be a member of a crowd, but at the same time I think blending into the crowd is a very sad thing. Everyone is different, but it’s a good thing! People shouldn’t feel pressured to be someone they’re not. Forced dreams, careers chosen based on salary instead of passion; when did our society become all about the facts and numbers? Whatever happened to real dreams?
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