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"And that’s really what FOMO boils down to: objectification. Not just of others, but ourselves. Treating our lives as some sort of itemized checklist or score to be maxed out before we die. But life is not a video game. There’s no report card waiting for you at the pearly gates. And no, you can’t take your Facebook timeline with you when you’re dead.

"Life is a series of complicated experiences that bring various mixtures of joys and struggles and must be evaluated and decided upon as we go, based on our current feelings and values. Inspired by our insecurities, FOMO short-circuits our ability to handle or deal with any of this.

"I know the truth is not as sexy as a bright-blue-green beach or a model-thin girl in a pair of short-shorts. And that’s probably why people seem to be so bad at doing it. Because the internet is good at showing sexy. It’s bad at showing life."