This is my project that organize an article a week about what I learned & thought.

・FOMO (Fear of missing out)

FOMO is a symptom of fearing of regret. Fearing about making a inappropriate decision, missing a valuable experience, or omittimg a ephemeral happiness, FOMO can extensively irritate our daily life.

This phonomenon was first introduced in 2004, in the magazine of Harvard Business School “The Harbus”, and was referred with another simmilar situation, FOBO (Fear of a Better Option).

With the buoyant of the internet, FOMO has become a important issue for people nowadays. Maybe we get trepidation when we see some friends posting their flamboyant life story, or feel some anxiety when someone have not reply our message.

For me, the fundamental way to deal with FOMO is to find the root of our social dependence. Perhaps sometimes it just a delusion, it totally doesn’t matter if we just miss a dinner, a event, or a party. Try to join the activities that we truely need it other than we just want it.

Hope my friends can break the limitation of FOMO, and find the great pleasure of your life.

・The eight arts

The eight arts is a prevalent classification of art that reflects the realistic life and social ideology, including Music, Sculpture, Painting, Literature, Architecture, Dance, Drama, and Film.

Its origin is a mystery, but we can find that there were only seven arts before. After the creation of photography, the derivation of film from photography authentically interprets the artists’ spirits and influences people’s visual experience. So finally “the seven arts” becomes “the eight arts”.

At modern times, when people mention about the eight arts, sometimes they means to introduce another art which isn’t in the eight arts and wants to make it be “the ninth art”.

For instance, Claude Beylie, a critic from France, maintain that Comics should be the ninth art; and there are some people suggest Video game might be the ninth art.

Art is ubiquitous, perhaps someday there are not only eight arts but twenty, thirty, forty.... However, no matter how the art evolve, it will remain constant that art is a typical way to reflect what people think and what people care about.

・Language, social platforms, and different personalities

I’ve heard a theory that people may have different characteristics when using different languages. To me, this notion seems plausible.

When we using Chinese, the terminologies, contexts, and grammar will extend a distinctive concept of world. Conversely, when we using English, our perspective shifts dramatically, reflecting some personalities that more aligned with the Western culture.

There’ s an interesting experiment. The researcher presented a vedio equiped with English and German subtitles about a woman walked toward a car to the people fluent only in English and German. The result was provocative. People who only fluent in German tended to think something like “that woman walk to her car”, whereas English speakers focused on "the woman was walking”, emphasizing the action itself rather than the objective.

Not only language, I’ve also noticed that using various social platforms can elicit diverse aspects of our personalities.

Just name a few, people on Facebook often post hilarious content that can display their funny personality, people on Instagram may be lugubrious and sometimes be laconic to make them just like some artistic fellas, people on BeReal envince their unsophisticated charecteristics with some mediocre but authentic selfies.

Do we really require such a sarcastic number of social platforms to exhibit our lives?

Albeit the personalitites may differ between the medias, our core nature remains unitary. I have deleted my BeReal app for a long time, trying to focus more on the real life experience rather than being confineded in the rectangular phone screen.

As new media could emerge without respite, the pure question between those different personalities on the social medias will always be “which one turely represents you?”.

Until someday we discover the genuine spirit of ourself, these social platforms can finally become a fountain of confidence and happiness.