The Deadly ‘Instagram Effect’ and How It’s Eating Your Energy
What are you comparing your efforts to and is it fair?
One of my dream jobs is to provide the haunting high soprano vocals you encounter in certain flavors of metal and industrial music. I own the corsets and the tall black boots and more than half a dozen black lipsticks. I’m completely prepared. Hit me up.
I get lost in music. I’ll never give that up, but there is one profound hazard lurking back there in the shadows like Gmork from The Never Ending Story. She talks like this:
“No matter how hard you work, you’re never going to sound like this.”
Soaring vocals floating through expertly tuned harmonies. An arresting soundscape that can shine drama into the most mundane activity. Totally rolling a natural 20 on unloading this dishwasher right now. The kind of voice that sounds like it has just opened into the cavernous dark of an abandoned cathedral and put a fissure in heaven.
I don’t sound like that.
There are a lot of debates floating around out there about our collective relationship with social media. Studies, apparently, tell us over and over that the constant barrage of other people’s airbrushed moments from curated lives makes us feel bad about ourselves and what we…
