Do you like, share and subscribe?

There’s nothing new about looking out of the window and noticing the flux that drives people. Or is it the people that drive the flux? Either ways, your observations about it are hardly going to be novel, and so are mine. Find it depressing? Do this little social experiment – take out your smartphone and open the camera. Then point it at this flux. Don’t click a picture, just point it and keep it that way. All good? Now, do you find anything interesting in that? Anything worth spending your time on? It only becomes interesting when you click that shutter and commit to a viewpoint.

Of course, you can add filters, effects and a truckload of paraphernalia to achieve a particular end result. But none of that would be possible if you have nothing to work with.

It’s pretty easy to not commit. Dreams, after all, are an aberration to routine. And you’ll be naive to not know that the world rewards routine. Yes, unpredictability is desirable as content, as a consumable, not as a lifestyle. The world around you wants you to be accountable to their expectations. Even when you’re not, you’re promptly turned into a consumable – a subject of pity parties, desire porn, or even the wildest assumptions to assign a justifiable cost to your deviation from normalcy. I cannot tell you how important it is for you to block it out, as I’m having a hard time doing so myself. Instead, I can share a belief that helps me stick to my shutter clicks.

There has never been a better time to observe. To put it out there. There are experts out there who’ve put their knowledge at your disposal for free or for a fraction of what you already spend on frivolity. There are means available with unforeseen ease and we, as a generation, have been brought up to dream. Now, whether you let that remain a topic of op-eds about failed millennials or use your biggest asset to your advantage is up to you. Because without the press of that shutter button, your dreams are nothing but an endless livestream where you’re the only one to like, share and subscribe.