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FOMO

The Life Scoreboard

"Has four Instagram accounts open checking if they were invited. Were not. Didn't want to go. Still spiraling."
FOMO — The Life Scoreboard

The Diagnosis

Somehow you know that Sarah got engaged, Paul has a book deal, and your cousin is in Portugal — all before your morning coffee. Your feed decided to show you everyone else's highlight reel in the same eleven seconds and you took it personally. You're not jealous, exactly. You're just... updated. And the update is not great.

The thing that gets you isn't the missing out. It's the not being asked. You didn't want to go — but you wanted to say no. There's a specific ache in seeing the group photo you weren't in, and it doesn't have a proper name, and you'd never say it out loud. So you check the stories one more time. Just to be sure. Just to know.

But here's what's really going on: you care. More than most people. You want to be included because connection actually matters to you — not status, not clout, just being part of the lives of people you love. That instinct isn't a flaw. It's the thing that makes you show up, remember birthdays, send the "thinking of you" text nobody else thought to send. The world needs more people who want to be in the room. Just remember — you already are.

You probably

  1. Check four social apps in a rotation you've memorized without meaning to
  2. Watch someone's story loop three times looking for background clues
  3. Feel a pang at an acquaintance's good news and immediately feel guilty about the pang
  4. Refresh the viewer list on your own story to see if they watched
  5. Mentally calculate who in your circle is currently "winning"
  6. Say "I'm happy for them" and mostly mean it

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I'm not jealous. I just want to be in the room.
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