The Reality Inflation - Part II

EN (via google translate) - Following the previous post, I must say that we must start to focus on our own achievements a lot more. I guess that most people (me included) spend too much time playing attention to other people's achievements and minimizing their own victories and, it is quite easy nowadays with all the inflated reality of social media.

Another important fact to play attention is to our own circumstances, and one more time the quote of José Ortega y Gasset, “the man is the man and his circumstances”, fits perfectly here. We have the tendency to compare ourselves with others even when our circumstances are quite different. Worst. When we look at someone else's achievements, most of us have a restricted perspective where only the final results are privileged and all the road of struggle, all the fails and frustrations tend to be neglected and ignored. I guess that Jon Acuff told to "not compare your beginning to someone else's middle" and it fits here too.

Sometimes I must confess I can't avoid some feeling of frustration when something does not go the way I plan, but I've learned a long time ago to not put myself in a position of comparison with others, especially when the circumstances are totally different. I have learned too to not minimize my achievements and that, happiness it's not a constant in life. For sure you will fail, you will feel frustrated, you will want to give up, but at the end, you must raise yourself and keep going with your life.

About my colleague, I must say that, at the university, he was a kind of person who was always happy and always socializing, hearing that he was kind of avoiding all of us because of his current situation was kind of shock.
After a long talk where I have tried to make him understand that all of us are facing our own problems and that probably he is just feeling frustrated with all the situation, what is normal. I recommended that, maybe, was better for him to take the time he needs to think about all that happened and about the effort, time and money that he invested. Giving up when you are just almost reaching your goal just because you have a setback is just dumb. Sometimes all you need is time to think it better. So, take the time you need.

The Reality Inflation

EN (via google translate) - Have you ever have the feeling that everyone is doing better than you? Probably you know the feeling, that notion nowadays so extrapolated by social media where people tend to show a version of their lives that, in most of the cases, do not correspond to the true.
After finished my graduation I've kept the contact with most of my colleagues. With some of them I talk often, with others, not so much, however, I've always followed their lives and achievements through social media. So, in my mind, all that people are doing well, actually, better than me, and in my mind, that were a fact. Well, no!

Last week a friend of mine contacted me asking for someone with some knowledge of AutoCAD for a job. I have a long contact list and I know a lot of people, some of them interior designers and architects who had the profile for the job. So I contacted some of them and the true has revealed.

One of this friend of mine, my colleague in the university who applyed for a master in interior design after finished the first cycle in industrial design, told me that, actually, at the moment he were unemployed after three years working in a call center. Worst, he had to give up of his Master degree. Added that, since then, he do not talk with any of our colleagues because he was too ashamed of his current situation.

But he was not the only one, the idyllic picture of everyone's perfect life quikly vanished. I've found that most of my old colleagues are in similar situations, unemployed or working in different fields and, most of them, feeling frustrated about the path their lives had followed. The reality that their social media profiles do not reflect.

Read Part two HERE

When the karma returns something to you

EN (via google translate) - Don't get me wrong. I am not the kind of person who believes in esoteric stuff, but, as I use to say, karma is not esoterism, it is Newton's Laws in action.
I have already talked about the benefits of blogging. For many years I've run the blog "a day in the land of nobody" on Tumblr, sharing the works of many talented people around the world. I do not get any kind of monetary reward from it, on the other side, I gain a lot of inspiration and visual culture from it, and this is quite important on any creative field.
So, it seems like this time, was my turn to see my works shared. It's nice one in a while something cool happens to you. One of my works have been curated on one of the Behance curator galleries and also on Packaging of the World blog. Cool Right?

Well here is a link to behance, take a look and if you are part of the community, punch it with a thumbs up.