I’m assuming that you probably already know this, but I’m gonna tell you anyway.
FOMO means “fear of missing out”. Hey, we just want to be clear here…
And there’s a lot of FOMO going around, folks!
Hey, you don’t want to miss out on anything, right?!?!
Folks on AskReddit opened up about things they’ve done because of FOMO.
Let’s see what they had to say.
1. One and done.
“Gambling. I lost $70 and had a lot of fun.
Not sure I wanna lose $70 anytime again soon though.”
2. Chain letters.
“About 25 years ago I believed every chain letter that appeared in my inbox, and religiously sent them along to all my contacts.
In my defense, I was a kid, but still, there’s probably a lot of people from that time that have me blocked for this very reason.”
3. Let’s take a trip.
“Going to South Africa.
I was in school (wild park management) with my best friend. Our year got the offer to go to SA with people from other classes but there was only place for 24 people.
I have never been further away from home then a 6 hour drive and SA is a 12 hour flight away. My thought was: If I don’t go now, I will never ever go.
I went, now I want to go back. But dang the the first time in an airport is stressful.”
4. Did you get lucky?
“Prom. Hated it.
Knew I would.
Glad I went anyway.”
5. Don’t do it!
“Vaping.
I have asthma so after about a week of bronchitis type coughing keeping me up at night I decided that even though I enjoyed it, I’d rather not be dead in a month.”
6. Dive right in.
“Swimming in the deep end of the pool. As a teenager I went to a graduation party at a pool.
The deep end was 12 feet. I wound up even jumping in off the diving board. I’m glad I did it!”
7. Clubbin’.
“Some college roommates took me clubbing.
I have an attitude that as long as something isn’t harmful, I need to force myself to try it at least once (because I’m an introvert, and otherwise I just never do s**t). In this case, I ended up absolutely hating it.
Every part of it was awful. Oh well, at least I can say I gave it a shot.”
8. This is cool.
“Became a music producer for film and TV at 41 years old.
Played music with bands growing up. Became high school media arts teacher and got to practice my skills almost daily. Realized I wanted to see see if I was good enough to make something out of it all. Busted my a** learning as much as I could about the business.
Fast forward 15 months- now partnered with 4 libraries from Toronto to California, collaborated with musicians from 3 different continents, written and produced over 100 songs for film and tv.
Kinda cool trajectory for a year and a half.
Fear Of Missing Out can easily be replaced with Someone’s Gonna Do It, Why Not Me?!”
9. That hurts!
“Paintball at my dad’s girlfriend’s son’s birthday party when I was like 13ish.
I did not know what a cup was since I had never done anything that needed one, and the place we were playing at did not provide anything other than a helmet.
A minute into the round someone shot me in the balls.
I hate paintball.”
10. Daredevil.
“Skydiving.
I went on a road trip with a few friends one time. They all wanted to go skydiving, but I did not, mainly because of the money.
Eventually I decided I could afford it and went. It was one of the most fun experiences of my life.”
11. Not into it.
“Oysters.
My sister-in-law and her husband had friends visiting from another country, so they took them along with my mother-in-law and me to Seattle to some foodie restaurant and one of the appetizers they ordered was oysters on the half shell.
When they noticed I wasn’t eating any they asked and I said I’ve never had them but the idea of raw goo wasn’t very appealing.
So after some convincing on their part, my brother-in-law fixed one up for me. Moral of the story, oysters are still not my jam”
12. Baby steps.
“Yesterday I went to the movies by myself because I really wanted to see the new Demon Slayer movie.
It might not sound like much but I have really bad social anxiety so it was a huge step for me and I’m very proud that.”
Okay, now it’s your turn…
Go ahead and admit what you’ve done before due to FOMO.
Do it in the comments!
