Be proud of your silent achievements

Day 360 / 365

We live in the glorious age of social media right now, where it’s not worth doing anything unless you can post a selfie of yourself doing it. It’s gotten to a point where people make judgments about themselves based on the number of likes they get online, and this has changed the way people look at personal goals.

Letting other people online know about the progress of your goals has become an integral part of the whole process. There are justifications for it, for instance some might say that the positive feedback would motivate them to carry on. Or that if more people know about their goals, they’ll hold them accountable for them.

But the issue I have with this is the way this affects the people who aren’t telling everyone about their lives on social media. These people would feel left out, would feel as if they haven’t achieved anything, while others are doing so well. This might not reflect the truth, these people might be fighting inner battles privately and making huge achievements that might seem insignificant to others. for instance, for a depressed person, even getting out of the bed and showing up to work might be an achievement. But it’s surely not something that they would share with the world to get validated.

I know you might be thinking that I am a hypocrite. I had two major goals this year, and I posted about all of them online. But those weren’t even close to the biggest wins I achieved for myself. And I am proud of those the most.

I guess what I am trying to get to is that people shouldn’t get disheartened if they didn’t achieve anything this year that the world might consider “worthwhile”. I know you had your own hills that you had to climb, and I know it must have been really hard. So give yourself a pat on the back anyway. You made it!

This post is part of my 365 Day Project for 2019. Read about it here

Yesterday’s blog — The Dandelion Mind