A diary of Jon's life

FOMO is the Fear Of Missing Out.

There is no real reason to have FOMO, other than perhaps low esteem. I tend to get low esteem when I’m particularly tired, and that usually pushes me to try and be at places I don’t have the energy to be at. Then people get to meet a version of me that I don’t think is the real me.

Or I turn up to an event and I drink too much and they meet an obnoxious, unintelligent alternative to me. Or they meet a shyer version of me.

Either way, there are going to be events that are a one off, but you have to guage which those are and not assume that everything you don’t go to is the worst thing ever. I’ve started trying to include that in my day to day - the realisation that I can survive without going to everything that’s happening. That’s how I could head home on Saturday before the party had really begun. Knowing I had to get myself right. Staying there would only be awkward and uncomfortable for me, and possibly a knock on for others too.