Publishing ChatGPT comments and posts on social media will get you engagement, but at what cost?
Using a beautiful, almost click-baity picture of a creator who lost their life in a tragic incident and then writing a post about them will get a lot of “sad thing”, but at what cost?
Lying often might make you a macho in the moment, but at what cost? At the cost of being trusted.
The work we do, the content each one of us puts out, the promises we keep and we break often, cost us more than our need to prove our smartness.
I understand it is not easy to be vulnerable.
I understand it is not easy to have “less likes on authentic content”.
I understand we all love to be liked.
But at the cost of betraying the person in the mirror, my friend?
The most beautiful art, the most beautiful people do not always have all the cheers.
It is like movie stars and cricketers being celebrated but not martyrs. Doesn’t make their life any less. If any, martyrs live the most courageous lives ever.
The right question is not to ask:
“Will this get liked?” (Social or offline)
The right question is to ask:
“With every action that I do, do I respect myself even more?”