Virtual/ Real

Many people nowadays are searching for love on social networking sites. People are so in love with their gadgets that they think through this gadget they will be able to find the love of their life. With the single swipe they choose people to know. They spend ours talking to them on text. Even though they are not able to know the other person's emotions on text, so they tend to assume them. On text it's not possible to know the mood of the person you are texting to, that person might be sad but is sending laughing emoji to you. You just assume about that person according to you.

Earlier people used to write love letters to each other, they use put in hours to write a single love letter, and then wait for days or even months for the reply of their letter, maybe that's why they knew the value of each other, nowadays within seconds the message is delivered, within seconds people find someone else to talk with a single swipe, that's why maybe that element of valuing is missing, and instead of love stories there are more breakup stories.

There is less physical contact and more virtual contact, people are stuck in their own virtual world, many cases have been heard that people who claim to fall in love on social networking site and when they meet each other face to face, their expectations shattered, the person they thought to be turned exactly opposite, they didn't like each other's real life personalities. Suddenly a beautiful dream turned into a nightmare. Many social sites stories have been successful too, but very rare, only one time out of ten times.

People have forgotten to be happy in what they have, because they have so many options around them to choose from, that's why as soon as problem arises, people choose to leave instead of standing up against that problem, they run to the easiest option.

Virtual world shows only the things you like, and not the actual truth. You yourself assume things according to your own wishes. Seeing all those love posts and quotes, people have defined love according to them, they expect their partner exactly to be that to the post they saw. They forget that mostly everything is made up on internet, and real life is way more different. In real life everything's not so golden and easy, you have to do efforts, you have to face the problems, then only you will feel accomplished as no one get anything in free, they have to work for it, whether it be their relationships or money.

People compare their lives with each other on the basis of what they post on social media, but no one know each other's real story, that how much that person must have worked for in order to achieve that type of luxury, what emotional problems that person might be going from, about which no one will ever know, as everyone is busy looking at their happy faces on their social networking sites.

So maybe instead of comparing, assuming and what not, people should just live in the moment, concentrate on themselves, understand that virtual and real is not the same thing, show care through actions and not through just posts, spend time with each other face to face rather than just through texting, show their real emotions and not just emojis, life would be so much better, not easy but yes better, not entirely satisfied as we know human wants are unlimited but still somewhat satisfied and in peace. And use social networking sites the way they are exactly made to be used, to spread awareness about the things that are important, to pursue people to take action against something wrong, to provide information to people on time and to maybe help people to find someone from past.