In the age of social networking and the means of connecting to the throne, we easily compare our lives with others to realize that there are so many happy and happy stars. That is when FOMO appeared, we do everything, spend money, time to be like other people.

This effect is actually born of the human imagination, which makes us make decisions based on our feelings and not our actual needs or desires.

Everyone gets FOMO, one way or another. It's just that we aim to different aspirations, with some people being expensive products, brands or luxurious meals ... As for the author below, I encountered FOMO related to. travel, and here's his story.

"FOMO is like an addiction, just that we don't absorb it, it's like a shopping addiction when we can't, shouldn't do it," says Mark Manson.

For many years, Mark Manson thought he liked traveling. Just looking at the pictures of the world's landscapes, he is ready to do everything to get there, even sell his assets. Mark's FOMO is quite heavy when he wants to do it right away, by all means.

Most of the times he wanted to go, Mark Manson tried to fulfill his wishes. It cost him tens of thousands of dollars to go around the world and then there are many photos to like on social networks.

And as a person who travels a lot, Mark said that most of the landscapes are not as beautiful as in the pictures, many are even disappointing. Most importantly, he was not happy to do these things.

So what's going on?

Mark encountered the opposite effect, when the places he went did not make him happy. And then, once again he convinced himself that he had not come to the right place, to find the right place. In his heart, Mark still believed that there would be a place that satisfied him. Just like that, the more time and money is spent on hobbies ... not much fun.

Of course, there were trips that Mark remembered, but the majority of them were destinations that Mark didn't like, he spent the money to see things that he really didn't care about.

And this is the time to talk about FOMO ...

Mark said that when we approach something new, we often worry that we will not be able to experience all that it has. For example, to a city, you will have to visit all the beautiful views it has to go for first. Once not done, FOMO will still disturb. The whole trip was stimulated and it always created a fear for Mark that he could not see anything beautiful.

FOMO is the desire to experience something, it was born not because of what you want to have but because of the fear of losing things you never had.

The rotation has no end

Mark thinks that FOMO is a psychological torture effect we created ourselves. It stimulates bad imagination and injects the thinking that others are always happier than us anytime, anywhere. It makes us believe that something better is still ahead and you have to do everything to get it instead of sitting still waiting.

This belief makes us make friends with many people, hoping that the next person will be a soulmate. We play with 9 people at the same time but not close to any of them, we always believe that there will be a great thing appear but sometimes because too dreamy and missed the opportunity of a thousand years. We go to new restaurants and then have faith that the next restaurant will be the best thing in the world, so that the meals are no longer attractive because we are always looking for something better.

FOMO gradually becomes a big problem for people of the new generation. The reason is because they have so many options, so many opportunities to experience new things. We often meet the case of having great experiences but also not much happier, all born from FOMO.

Suppose you have 2 sandwiches on display, choose 1 for breakfast. You will definitely choose one that looks more appealing and looks better.

However, if presented in front of you are 50 different locations with lots of different breakfast, delicious, surely you will torture yourself to choose a destination in the future. And then when you get to a point, you will torment yourself again and think that the remaining 49 points will have something better ... so, so on.

The big problem with FOMO is that it interferes with your own experience, causing you to fall into a non-stop rotation where we always look for something better than appreciating what is there. People who encounter FOMO want to have as many experiences as possible, but all of them are not memorable.

"People who encounter FOMO will put quantity above quality".

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