I woke up this morning asking myself, "why are people not contented with what they have?" Why do we always find something we don't have and try to force ourselves that we should have that? In an era full content, why is there so much discontent?
I realized that the phrase "sana all" is a big part of this. We often see this phrase in comments on social media where everyone shares "the good stuff". We see a couple's nice photo and the first comment is "sana all". We see a woman in a bikini on the beach with the caption, "sunkissed", "beach please", or "vitamin sea", and the first comment is "sana all". We see a person's photo in a foreign country with a historical land mark and the first comment is "sana all".
I get it. It's supposed to make the person in the photo feel good about themselves. However, does the person saying it feel any better? "Sana all" is funny at first but as I hear it or see it more, I realize that it is just another deadly sin. It's just a funny way of saying we are envious. Social media is full of these photos and we will see them every day especially when we know so many people. When we scroll through every photo on Instagram and check at each person's daily story, "sana all" becomes an autocomplete on the comment box.
The more we use this phrase, the more we get envious of other people and then we want to post our own photos so that others comment the same phrase to us. We try to check how many likes we got or how many comments were said to feel good about ourselves but does that really make us feel satisfied? Will we ever be satisfied? We will never be satisfied.
And then there are these people we call "influencers" -- these people who share their own opinions and experiences about a subject and people act like these are the experts to follow religiously. These people will always show us what we want and when we see something we think is what we need, we try to follow what they do. Whether it's their travel tips, or the inside drama or the romantic advise we didn't really ask for, we subscribe to that because they make us feel things. We don't realize that these people are just ordinary people who are posting things on social media just like any other friend we have. This is all just content that we all consume.
This is also true for relationships. We see couples on social media showing us how good they look like together. We "stan" or "ship" people because we think they're perfect. We think of our relationships as something that we want to develop into because we see these social media couples and we want what they have. But it's not like that. Not all people are the same. Not everyone has the guts to walk around with a dozen roses to show how sweet he is. Not everyone will understand that what you see in social media is what you want in your life. And not everything you want in social media is what you need in your life.
The reality is that every person is different. On the other hand, virtual reality tells us that we can be anyone or that we can do anything. We then get envious of what we don't have and jokingly comment, "sana all" to those who have it but we do have a lot that others also don't have. If we focus on what we don't have now, we miss out on all the good things happening for us. Whether it's getting out of a toxic work environment, getting that new high-paying job, working from home and being with your family, or even just being able to wake up late.
Right now, I have the luxury of taking a few minutes break from work to write my thoughts for a post that will be content consumed by people on social media. As ironic as it sounds, social media is also a place to put our feelings "out there". It's really why it's there in the first place. It's just that when we put our feelings out there, people might feel other things. It can be a good thing if we try to make it for ourselves and not just for likes and comments.
Wherever this content goes, I hope you see the things that you have now, which you only wished for before, and tell yourselves, "this was my sana all". Have a good day!
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