Has anyone gotten laid in India using Tinder? What's your story?
My roommate, who was about 20–21 years old and good looking, installed tinder. He uploaded his decent pictures and copied his bio from Google.As we were roommates and good friends, he would tell me if he had any match.One fine day, he woke me up from sleep excitedly and told me that he matched with a gorgeous girl. I, thinking that girl must have swiped right by mistake, slept again. When i finally woke up at around 12pm, i saw him chatting on phone, smiling to himself. When i looked over to his phone he was, infact, chatting with that “gorgeous” girl.Fast forward to few days ahead, they went on a date in morning. I too went outside and returned to my hostel at about 7–8 pm. I was hoping that my roommate must have returned from his date but i was wrong. As the mess would close at 9 pm, i inquired him on WhatsApp about when he's gonna be back but he didn't reply(which was odd as he usually replied instantly to me). I didn't think about it much as he wasn't a kid and had dinner and went to my room.At around 9:45 pm, i received WhatsApp message from him. He sent me a pic like this:With a text which read something like this “I'll be staying at her place tonight”.At first i couldn't believe what i just saw but then again, he was good looking and was a gentleman so it wasn't a big shock.Next day, he told me that they had sex after watching some episodes of Rick and Morty(my roomie loves Rick and Morty and so did that girl which further enhanced their bond).They're still together after almost 1.5 years.
Why do I feel bad about my life when looking at other people’s Instagram accounts, and what should I do about it?
Trust me, pal, life would be much better and easy if we know how to and when to demarcate between reality and virtual reality.You are not alone.Almost every other person on social media feels mentally down for one reason or the other, seeing the highlight reels of others on social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook or Snapchat.I am no different.But having a career in digital media AND growing to know this social media world better, I have understood that it is foolish on anyone’s part to buy everything that social media sells to us, at face value.A simple way of putting this would be, you have a bad, bad day, wherein, say, you had a fight with your parents, your cat died, or you just simply don’t even feel like waking up from bed and do nothing but laze around the whole day.Now, would you put this negative/mundane angle of your life on social media?Chances are marginal, for you may feel the onus of the possibility of being judged, being called an attention-seeker, moody, et cetera.Now compare this to a day where you just feel good about yourself. Say, you got a damn nice dress, which fetched you a plethora of compliments, a bevy of people viewed your Snapchat stories, etc. And you do feel like basking in this glory for a change, and you click a picture and post it on Instagram/Facebook.These are all highlight reels that you are sharing.There are people (though less) who share as much of their sad stories as they do for their happy ones, and then there are people who only let their positive side show on social media, concealing the chink in their armor fairly well, simply for the reason that they do not want the world to see their inner demons.But amid all this: truth remains just one. Everyone has their dark days and perfection is just a myth. Nobody’s life is as perfect as their Instagram Feed or Snapchat history might look, and this is a fact.You may feel like, ‘’Oh, she’s got a perfect life!’’ ‘’He has nothing to worry about! I wish I had a life like that!’’ but bottom line is, those persons aren’t living a life that’s hunky dory either, just like you. Just that their problems might be different than yours.It’s the best to thus treat highlight reels as they are: ‘’Reels’’ and know that ‘’Real’’ is quite different. It is basic, it lacks background music, and sometimes, it sucks! But hey, that’s life. We make, we break, and we gotta live it the way we want, whatever it takes! :)Good luck!