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    The document discusses how people today live for attention and seek validation on social media. It argues that this desire for attention stems from human nature but has increased due to social media. Excessive attention seeking can lead to issues like anxiety and depression by making people self-conscious and afraid to be themselves.

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    The document discusses how people today live for attention and seek validation on social media. It argues that this desire for attention stems from human nature but has increased due to social media. Excessive attention seeking can lead to issues like anxiety and depression by making people self-conscious and afraid to be themselves.

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    The document discusses how people today live for attention and seek validation on social media. It argues that this desire for attention stems from human nature but has increased due to social media. Excessive attention seeking can lead to issues like anxiety and depression by making people self-conscious and afraid to be themselves.

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    “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.

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