WRITING OBSTACLE

Write an internal monologue from the perspective of someone with severe FOMO.

Fear Of Missing Out can drive people to think interesting things...

Wait, What Did I Miss?

Jaime and Will are going to a performance art installation in the Tenderloin and I don’t want to miss it so I said I’d go. I really want to see it because yesterday a couple of my co-workers were talking about it and I was totally clueless. It was awful.


The only problem was that my family has their weekly video call at the same time and I can’t stand missing out on all the conversation there. What if something hapened or someone did something interesting last week? I wouldn’t know about it until later. I might have to skip the event with Will and Jaimie. Arrrgh! Then I might never be able to join in with my co-workers.


Besides all that, one of my friends from college is having a baby shower. I have to be there. It’s a once in a lifetime event. Oh God, now I’m feeling guilty about missing the other two things. I can’t handle this stress, it’s making me anxious. I just chewed a whole fingernail off.


Ok. There’s only one answer, I have to stay home with my cat. I haven’t spent time with her in days, I’m afraid she’s lonely. I’ll tell Will and Jaime I’m at the shower and I’ll tell my family I’m at the installation. I never RSVP’ed to the baby shower anyway.


Great. I have a plan. I’ll get some treats for the cat and…


Oh my God! I’m missing everything.

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