We live in a society of spectacles, where the private becomes public in an unbridled desire to attract attention, regardless of whether the protagonists are ordinary people from civil society or artists, singers and actresses, used to asking to be talked about in order to stay in the arena Everything is allowed, but what is worrying is that along with excessive exposure on social networks, the fantasy of filtered images is added. I keep questioning whether all this exaggerated or contrived narrative is fundamentally based on a deep fear of facing a mirror that has no filter and screams harshly who we are.

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Consequently, we are currently witnessing fights that go viral and end up being a bad joke. Feelings and anger are turned into a meme, a t-shirt, or a song, under the banner of honest personal relief, but what are we left with? We fill our voids with the worst of others’ lives, or the life they want us to believe they have, but we’re still afraid to look at ourselves without a filter, without background music or motivational phrases from a writer, or a distorted picture, thanks to some new app. That is, if we saw ourselves with our freckles, moles, wrinkles, imperfections and flaws that make us unique, would we have the courage? At the moment, it seems that avoiding reality through a thousand options inside the phone is what we are all doing. Leaving the virtual world seems as complicated as an addiction.

(…) as the writer Helen Keller said: “Life is a daring adventure or nothing.”

In this way, it seems that we are slaves to the contents of our phone, which we use for everything but calling. We choose to write on WhatsApp to communicate with family or friends, but we use other apps to message people that we hope no one will discover. We put a timeout on certain messages, we use emojis to fake a smile or a hug, we put likes to commit, we post content that makes us intelligent or happy depending on the social network of choice, and when it comes to photos, we fill them with filters until our face becomes unrecognizable. We hide behind masks. We lie and lie to ourselves. We live in a parallel and false reality. We rush through life, believing that it will be eternal, we assume that things and people around us will be eternal, but we forget that eternity does not exist.

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As a result, over the years I have learned that coincidences do not exist, that doubt usually becomes certainty, that people do not change their essence, although they can modify many things in some way, due to life experiences, but the essence remains intact. , although I have fundamentally learned that life is more beautiful when it is lived honestly. Letting go of masks, facing fears and feeling proud of the image in the mirror are key to peace, let’s slow down and start enjoying the journey. I believe that real life is much richer than virtual life, as the writer Helen Keller said: “Life is a daring adventure or nothing.” (OR)