“People in today’s world live for attention.

” Justify this sentence in

context of today’s world in about 500 words.
 
It is our human nature to fight for attention, but we don’t get it as we
want. We all want to show-off in front of others and want to make them
realize our value. But, frankly speaking, I feel we are all a bunch of
attention seekers.
For me, the entire concept of social media is based on attention seeking.
It’s truly amazing how instagram, twitter and Facebook have changed
our perception towards things and the way we live. People are seen
wearing certain kinds of clothes, eating certain kinds of cuisine, listening
to that trending music just to grab attention from somebody else. We all
are so busy in seeking attention that we don’t give attention to anyone
else which raises a question “who has the time to give attention to
someone else?”
If we look out in the past, this attention seeking habit of ours had started
long before. Our innate sense to belong to a society and be treated as
someone special might be the cause behind our excessive attention
seeking habit. If you are someone of value, then all the people in the
community respect your ideas, you are given huge respect by the
community and people come to you for advice. Furthermore, the
opposite sex will want to mate with you and after all this, your rate of
survival increases.
However, all of this has evolved much more rapidly than anticipated as
our society has evolved faster than our minds and bodies. When once
our attention seeking habit was treated as a survival instinct, today our
attention seeking habit has led us to problems like depression and
anxiety. Our attention-seeking nature has increased self-consciousness
which has negatively impacted our natural tendency to think and our
creativity.
Being self-conscious has made us question our every move. We think
about what we eat, what we wear to a party, how we walk and even how
we think. All of this is not bad, but sometimes it doesn’t work in our
favor. We can find people panicking about how they look or what people
think about them. This excessive self-consciousness has pushed us to
live in constant fear. We don’t open ourselves and always pretend to be
someone else. These are some of the reasons why we should cure this
deadly disease inside us before it’s too late.
Rather than seeking attention, we should learn to pay attention. Being
fully attentive to the task at hand is most probably the best thing we can
do for ourselves. We shape our life through the things we prioritize the
most. Our intensity of attention towards a work determines the success
of work. So, according to me, we should utilize the time we spend in
attention-seeking and channel it towards something productive.
 
 
 
 
Checked by: Sandhya Pathak
Marks Obtained: 9/10
 
This is a question asked in our internal exams during Grade-12.