Fake it until you get it

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Living a life that one can’t afford is now common practice everywhere. Social media is one of the key contributors to this. You will see people flashing their expensive wristwatches, cars, shoes in different videos and pictures. So many youths with no valid proof of where they earn their money live flashy life on social media but in reality, they have next to nothing. People who live above their means are only costing themselves their peace.

The slang in the street now is to fake it until you get it. If your friend has a car, you can snap pictures with it, do some editing and post online as yours. There is no extent people don’t go to just to live a life that isn’t theirs. I’ve heard about ladies that go to expensive restaurants with their bags filled with different clothes. They go into the restroom and change into different cloth just to snap pictures to post online. People rent aeroplanes at a cheap price to snap. They go in with their wine glass and cheap wine, pretend to be a passenger and snap pictures. All these in an empty plane with no pilot.

There are different reasons why people pretend to be what they are not:-

It is needed in life

Some groups will argue that living a life bigger than what you can afford is needed in life. After all, it’s how you present yourself that will determine how you will be addressed. For example, before some clients can give out their project to you, they’ll try to access you. Know your financial standing and get the assurance that you can deliver their job to them without running away with the money. That's why you see people rent cars to go seal a contract. This is something common in this part of the world, but packaging oneself as a form of business is quite different from living a fake life. Don't mix it up.

Peer pressure

Many are pushed into living a flashy life they can’t afford due to things their friends are doing. When one of their friends post something or a celeb post something radiant online they try all their means to also get it.

Before taking any decision to imitate anyone, one of the things you should consider are

1. Earnings

   How much are you earning compared to the other person?. You can’t expect someone earning $2000 per month to live the way you- earning $100 per month is living. If you try to compare yourself to such a person, you will end up getting your knees deep in debt and might even push yourself to an early grave.

2. Is it needed?

   You might be working at the same place another person, earn the same salary but your needs are different. Mr B might live miles away from the office and need a car to aid his movement to and fro every day to save cost and also reduce stress. While for you whose house is just a stone throw from the office, getting a car might be unreasonable. Though everyone wants a life of luxury but before you buy something try to access it, weigh your options. Ask yourself, will this be a liability to me or will it make things easier for me.

3. Responsibilities are different

The responsibilities of each person are different. You might have your family depending on you, your siblings in school constantly calling for one help or the other, your parents might be your responsibility, while that your friend that posts different flashy things online might have no one depending on him. Imitate him to your own detriment.

I once saw an advert of two friends working in the same office, one lives in a single room apartment, lives a moderate life, club once in a while with friends, while the other has a car, rented a 3 bedroom apartments with a high fee, party and club every day. Every day on his way to the office he branches at the former’s house and takes him to work in his car. They work at the same place and probably earn the same amount of money.

One day he went to his house as was his usual practice to take him to work, on entering the car, the other friend gave him an IV to his house warming party. He was shocked to hear that his friend now owns a house, while he doesn’t even have a piece of land. I’m sure all this while, people must have been calling the friend with no car names, but he was focused before he has higher plans and responsibilities.

In conclusion never let social media or peer pressure push you into living beyond your means, if you do you will end up regretting your actions a few years down the lane. Do not spend more than you earn. And remember, not all you see on social media is real.

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I just don't really know how happy they are doing that things. But there are really lots of people who are fake or pretenders not only in person but more so in social media. Pretending to be trustworthy in social media but are scammers. It seems pretending these days are trending in social media , for the sake of fame and money.

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3 years ago

People nowadays just pretend to others what they are not, and I agree with all the reasons you mentioned above, which leads them to live such a fake luxury life.

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3 years ago

They call it packaging, but I call it fake life. It happens especially with yahoo boys, you will see someone that just collected $100 itunes card, he will run and go buy fake wrist watches and chains trying to compete with his peers that have millions. Even the ones that are not into fraud will try to borrow clothes from their friends so they can "blend in". It's even worse in females, coz most guys will rather do the fraud with their friends than to borrow their clothes to pose

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3 years ago

Conclusion is good. Be who you are and what you are. You can live a peaceful life. Ignore that are nor worth for you.

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3 years ago

Every one has their own cross to carry or path to follow. Faking it till you make it also depends on what you use it for and once you fake it people think you have everything figured out and won't want to help you.

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3 years ago

"People who live above their means are only costing themselves their peace." There are different stories behind every social media post. Some are pretentious and some aren't. It is just that social media makes our standard even higher than what we used to. And people trying to achieve those by looking fancier when in reality they aren't

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3 years ago

I agree with you happyboy. We may have the same earning per month but the responsibilities and necessities are different. I have learned to focus on my responsibilities rather than buying unnecessary things just to brag on social media. That is something I should be Proud of. Yes, I don't have enough savings coz I have responsibilities. I know for sure good thing will come someday.

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3 years ago

No need to fake life, just be contented of what we have but it doesn't mean we'll stop working to make our life better.

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3 years ago

My grandmother used to say a saying that we use a lot here. Cover yourself as far as the blanket reaches you.

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3 years ago

Living a fake life is really degrading especially when such a person has been casted, it'll now be worse than accepting the kind of person you were before

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3 years ago

Those lives are like ladders of cards, at the slightest blow they collapse.

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3 years ago

If you fake it, yo can't get it lol. Stay true to yourself. You'll eventually get it without faking anything. Go at your own pace. Copy copy won't take you anywhere.

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3 years ago

Trying to imitate someone better than us is a good thing, but it is better when we learn something positive from them. Like how they manage their schedule.

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3 years ago

Living a life one can't afford is common in the whole wide world. I think we should all be our real self. Am also a newbie in readcash 🤘

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3 years ago

There is always a need to compare yourself with others, it is in human nature. What we must do without wanting to hurt and in a healthy way, to grow together with that person and learn from them. Envy kills and corrupts.

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3 years ago

All I can say its really sad! I'd rather be alone and not in, than to be this sad. My eldest son and I talked about earning easy money, I really hoped he learned something...

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3 years ago

A natural phenomena or quote " Bunk with parents money". Such a cheap that one can do who has no worth of money. They did nothing to earn it. They waste their parents money. This is natural, when you started earning and exert your efforts to earn mony on your behalf tha such a luxury lifestyle end up.

According to me, we should stay pure as we are i work in hospital as part time job i never feel ashmed to tell anyone that i work in hospital. I buy thing be staying in limit and calculating my all expenditures. Stay pure and speak turth make you perfect and strong man/ woman .

Show off is childish act. Just waste of money and time.

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3 years ago

I actually took my time to read this as so many things have been taking my attention taking my attention lately… you put justice to it and no one could have done it better.. living a fake life isn’t the solution, if you don’t have it you don’t, work towards being the person you dream to be…

I’ve actually borrowed shoe to use for a school stuff before just to be different but that day I felt like I wasn’t the same exact person, imitating is bad at the end people will find out… Take care

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3 years ago

This fake life thing dey trend ooo, I remembered during the lockdown in Nigeria. We stopped seeing girls posting in beautiful rooms and dressing gorgeously in the place where they use to call their home, they have been renting hotel rooms just to dance and shake the booty is the camera.

Fake life ends in tears because we are in directing setting a standard that is bigger than us. I don't buy the idea so I don't engage with it.

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3 years ago

Social media plus peer pressure have contributed much to this practice. I know of a guy that deleted his social media accounts because he couldn't stand the oppression out there. Well, it all work with choice.

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3 years ago

You nailed it! Reality sucks that there are a lot faking their selves just to please others. Thank you for sharing this.

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3 years ago

You are right brother. Comparing others and then trying to live like them will lead us to debt and worry.

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3 years ago

Even if you fake it to people deep within you You know you are just fooling yourself because people that was suppose to help will think you are ok meanwhile you are faking it

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3 years ago

Peer pressure is not even among the peers now but in every youth and adults. That's how bad the world is right now. Even the people we look up to are influenced by peer pressure.

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3 years ago

Fantastic write-up. This is the summary of what operates in the society today and which should be condemned by every well meaning people. I cherish your choice of language. Very straightforward and meaningful to the core. Stay blessed.

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3 years ago

To live a fake life too nowadays isn't easy any longer, you will have to pile up some lies and also have some in the reservoir should in case the secret is about to open 😅😅, wahala for who dey live fake life ooo. It's common among the youth and I wish they stop early before it's late because they are only sending away their helper from them.

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3 years ago

Fake life .. I feel like you wrote this after we had that chit chat on noise of my stylist 😂😂.

Just kidding anyways I am one of those people that post a lot of my life on social media I didn’t use to do that before and soon I would stop I feel like it’s a phrase but even as I post things I buy or own I make sure they are mine because what if I lie and the real owner sees it .. fake life is indeed too expensive

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3 years ago

What a great lesson you have shared today the person who doesn't cut his clothes according to his feet he has repent one day. The person who spent on the thing he doesn't need have to wait for the things he needs in future

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3 years ago

Such a meaningful post... but I would never ask to fake it though, it's better to be proud of one self than faking it, because the consequences once others realize we are lying are more sometimes instead of being honest and getting hard time about it...

Also, the title is kinda naughty 🤣🤣

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3 years ago

Fake life has lead a lot of people into debts. Some ran to a far away. While some end up committing suicide

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3 years ago

At this moment everyone mostly do it for social media, some live a fake life and they are still trying to pursue one or two things while some does it and just keep doing it. Either ways living a life that's not yours is never a good thing, your helper might think you're bigger than him 🤣🤣

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3 years ago

What you just wrote about is rampant in our society especially among the youths. They don't know that kind of life comes with hardwork and persistence

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3 years ago

What an interesting topic you raised, dear friend, something we are constantly witnessing these days due to the growth of social media. Even when we see that our friend has such a prosperous and happy life, we become jealous of him, unaware that these are all appearances and dramatic aspects of that person's life...

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3 years ago

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3 years ago

On point Beloz, the desire is no longer there.

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3 years ago

Social media is the haven of pretenders. If you are gullible, you will try to keep up with others. But if you grow wise, you wouldn't be able to see the value of flashing things online. It is better to live low-key and never boring to live not beyond our means. In that way, we will have peace in mind.

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3 years ago

You're right Murakamii , social media is filledeith pretenders

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3 years ago

Living behind your means might end you up behind the fence. Haha Let's have a simple life and live it according to what we only have.

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