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look up, not down at your black screen.

September 15, 2018

The 21st century has bought us many things – cinnamon challenge, selfies, loom bands, the word ‘fleeky’ and finally the evolution of social media.
I can proudly and embarrassingly state that I’ve survived through most of the social media trends. Dated right back from Piczo, Hi5, Myspace, Bebo – remember the old giving ‘love’ to your close pals? Cringe. – MSN messenger, Facebook, Twitter, and finally Instagram. We invest and sacrifice so much of our valuable time into updating our status and telling Facebook ‘What’s on our mind’ and uploading yet another selfie on Instagram with our carefully hand chosen filter that will guarantee to enhance our look by making us light skinned when taking the photo strategically by the sunlight. It is a complete deception, in editing our self image and showing solely our best features, we are giving a false perception of ourselves whilst cutting out the emotion.

Even worse we have the need to boost our egos by relying on how many people have liked our photos, and how many positive comments people post in order to confirm that we are attractive in any sort. We ensure that the number of followers on our Instagram account must always outweigh the number of people we are following in order to make us look ‘popular.’  Are we that inadequate of our own self worth that we need the reassurance of other people – worse, people that we do not even know? Do people even care if you’ve just had a wild night out clubbing down Broad St? I highly doubt it.

Isn’t it ironic that it is labelled social media but it is anything but social? We shut our doors in complete isolation, utter desolation in order to open up our laptops and update our statuses on these ‘social’ networking sites. Although you may brag of having 727 friends on Facebook, how many could you honestly say you talk to daily? How many of them would you go to if you were in trouble or in need of some advice?

The aim of social media was originally surrounded by the entertainment philosophy: a time passer for when one was bored. But over the years it has evolved to consume our lives, a constant tweet updating the outside world of what we are eating, where we are going, vent our emotions, all the unnecessary details. It has become our own online diary.

I don’t think we actually know how much time we waste every day by devoting these crucial minutes and hours of our lives online. This is to the extent that we end up missing out on the crucial aspects of the present, the refining moments and memories that we will once look back at – that time that will never come back to us. Is it really worth it, throwing away these chunks of minutes just to see whether that girl you despise of has updated her instagram with yet another revealing photo that will gain around 100 likes per minute? I know I’d happily pass.

Now I’m not totally slacking social media. I mean in its own right it is a big part of 21st century marketing and these have made many companies and bloggers successful. But all in all we live in an anti social world, a technological addicted society, and a self absorbed bubble where our lives are defined by our online presence and profiles.

So put your mobile phone away, glance away from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Don’t miss out on a chance just because you were too busy looking down. Look up. Live life the real way.

 

The video above replicates the message perfectly. Credit to Gary Turk.

Gary Turk, ‘Look Up’  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7dLU6fk9QY

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    25 year old writer; creative; lover of deep captions; selenophile; peripatetic;  human.

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    • ‘i know, i wish, i will’ – live at spoken word london
    • ‘music is my best friend’ – spoken word live at poetic unity
    • ‘exposed’ – live at spoken word london
    • libra’s light
    • Performing live spoken word at FLO vortex


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    sometimes things make an impact on us. it could be the minuscule things such as that movie you watched the other day, that got you wide awake and haunts you late every night.

It could be the books that leave a bruise on us. You have this feeling of sad anticipation when you turn the page, the idea of nearing the end of the characters you have gotten so attached to, the end of the story you have engrossed yourself to, the finale dawns on you, it imprints on you.

It could be people that leave a pattern on us. Impact could be in form of places and countries that engrain and enrich us. The culture and ways of life open your eyes to the easy or hard way of life you have.

maybe it's the memory of kissing your parents on the cheek or the smell of mom's cooking and warm tea that allow you to feel closer to home.

sometimes it's the moments we live in that consume us, the retrospective memory of it allowing us to reignite the candle. Hold on to these things, these things that make you human, these things that make up you. #tuesdaythoughts #writingonthetube #writersofinstagram #words #gratitude #human 
thank you for the shot @pharaohdraws 📸

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    This is the difference I want to see in the world. Hence my piece for @spokenwordlondon 'I know I wish I will' - full link in bio.
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I envisage a world. I envisage a world where we incorporate all types of diversity, no matter from what background, race, sexuality, nationality, ability or disability.

I envisage a world where we are passionate to be different yet able to come together as one. I envisage a world where our differences do not set us apart but instead bring us closer. 
A place where the colour of our skin doesn't conjure up a stereotype but instead the truth that we are unique individuals with feelings

I envisage a world where the rich doesn't get richer and the poor poorer. Where we care about this aphorism of inequality and commit to making a change.
I envisage a world where there is not a divide between the noble stigma of aristocrats perched on their mighty high ground looking down at those they call peasants with their hands cupped out.
I envisage a world where people don't have the heriditary advantage of being born into the superior class system which promotes an every man for himself approach. What happened to coming together as one instead of survival of the fittest? What happened to the heart of the human race?

I envisage a world where politicians do not make false promises just to win our vote, i envisage a world where true democracy exists and our voices are still heard once they raise to power. 
I envisage a world where discrimination does not exist. The term faggot does not exist because did you know that this demoralising word referred to lighting homosexuals back in the day?
A world where people are educated before they call out derogative labels, a world where hate crime does not exist, where sexism isn't a thing, a world where racism does not contribute to the wars of this earth and its other atrocities.

I envisage a world where the youth of our society is not obsessed with social media and whatever is online. Where hapiness doesn't depend on the amount of likes you get on instagram. 
Dont people realise they cannot match this false reality because perfection doesn't exist?

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    Thank you @poeticunity for having me the other day, performing my piece for the first time on your stage was enlightening 
#spokenword #london #nishabynight #brixton

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    thank you @poeticunity for having me tonight. Here's a clip of my piece 'music is my best friend' #spokenword #brixton #openmic #writersofinstagram #words #poetry

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    performing on stage for the second time at @spokenwordlondon at @vfdalston - I absolutely love this night, a welcoming and intimate atmosphere always inspiring and uplifting your mind! Here is a clip of my #spokenword called 'Exposed'
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I would really appreciate you watching the full video on youtube, like, share and subscribe:  https://youtu.be/3nyMC1WTO7E

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    I had so much fun at @spokenwordlondon reading my piece 'to be beautiful'. An intimate night with a welcoming and uplifting audience for my first time performing my work. Join me at the next one on Wednesday at VFD from 8pm 
#spokenword #nishabynight #openmic #london #writing #words #performance

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    here is a clip of my piece called 'libra's light' - because not every day is a powerful day and that in itself should be celebrated too ♎🌻
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Sometimes I feel like I live up to my balancing Libra scales, I envelop peoples anxieties, I engross peoples tensions within me, healing them, emitting a sense of serenity within them. .
Sucking in their energy, overcoming their abandoned aura; I am an empathetic leech. Maybe I am the definition of the almighty Empath, but you see I cannot help being oh so sensitive. .
I am my own worst enemy, gregarious libra's light I. Drowning, I consume their hopeless energy as my own, balancing their worrisome pessimism with a soothing optimism. .
Come into my arms, and let me ignite a fire in you; even if it costs me my very own detriment. Let me blare this torch in your darkness despite my procastination to materialise my own happiness and dreams.
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Let me shine a light through you despite my shameful inability to shine a light in me.
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You can find this and my other work on my youtube channel. like/subscribe/share: https://youtu.be/LNwSsRko67k

#spokenword #nishabynight #libra #writersofinstagram #words #tuesdaythoughts

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    remember one thing: you are a flawless entity and it is the world that has taught you that you have flaws, that you lack something. it is the world that has voiced that you are 'too fat' or 'too skinny' in comparison to the ‘ideal’ bodies glammed and photoshopped in media mags. it is the world that disapproves you of being 'too bubbly' or 'too depressed'. it is the world that tuts away that you post too many photos of yourself or that you post barely anything. it is the world that haunts you that you're not on the right path, it is the world that complains you are 'too picky' or you are 'too sensitive'
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you are always going to be 'too much' for the world but none of that matters because you do not live for this world, you live for YOU. it does not matter, because as human beings we are not suppose to be perfect; we do not exist as the omnipresent figure who is 'too much' of anything.
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do not let the world confine you to one extreme, do not let them label you. you are a flawless human being in all of your good and all of your bad. so pls break the mould and the constraints of social conformity - wear your flaws loud & proud b. 🌙
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📸: @pharaohdraws .
#nishabynight #words #blogging #spokenword #sundayfunday #blog #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #photography #birmingham #photoshoot #lighting #sun

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    So here is me performing spoken word for the second time on stage! I delivered my personal favourite, a piece I wrote called 'to be beautiful' last night at @flovortex for their 5th anniversary - it was an honour, thank you for having me 🌙

#spokenword #artist #nishabynight #streatham #london #talent #writing #words #poetry

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    I am truly delighted to be asked to perform at FLO vortex for their 5th anniversary tomorrow. This will be my first proper performance as a spoken word artist and I'm living by Susan Jeffers' infamous principle of 'Feel the fear and do it anyway!' Seven time Grammy nominee, The Floacist, hosts one of the capital’s finest spoken word events. Always attracting the finest poets, spoken word artists, MCs, writers, rappers and articulators of words, why not join me at 8pm at Hideaway Streatham, London  Get your tickets (link in bio): https://lnkd.in/dagDSGA  #spokenword #london #flovortex #artist #poetry #art

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