Learning To Shunn The Instagram Life Analysis

In a world consumed with desire, Carl Richards tries to offer a solution to an individual’s need to be better than the person standing beside him or her with his article, “Learning to Shun the Instagram Life.” Richards discusses how he sees others living their life, which he refers to as the “Instagram life”. He describes this life as being “focused on making it look like we have a better life than everyone else.” He even further demonstrates that as we look at ourselves and appear happy, we also see others and feel jealousy towards those people. Envy is considered as one of the seven deadly sins. Everyone has some jealousy in their veins, the question is do we build our lives around that jealously? Richards does a decent job trying to convince the reader that he or she should not live the Instagram life, but focus on building a genuine life of happiness,
Both explain how their lives were filled with a constant jealousy of others around them. The investor was a wealthy man who was upset that his bonus was only 3.6 million dollars. He was upset because he knew others received more than he did. The bonus was not enough to make him happy because he was jealous that others received more than he did. The model he also refers to suffered a different form of jealousy. Richards believed her jealousy stemmed from how others around her did not worry about their looks as often as she did. She suffered from insecurities. He talks little of himself and his feelings, i.e. his happiness or lack of it. He does discuss his desires to live away from where he is due to the high amount of competiveness through sports and the feeling of being overwhelmed with it. He uses these examples to show how living an Instagram life will lead to being unhappy. He is trying to persuade the reader to stop bring envious of others. When the reader does this, he or she will be able to be truly