Seems like a personal question, yeah? Well it's not (just) me being nosey – and you don't even have to answer (infact I'd recommend you keep it secret!) – it's just one small part of a bigger question; why do we feel the need to quantify everything?
Y'see, I came to the realisation this week that we need to measure and quantify almost every aspect of daily life. We use social
networks to measure how popular we are as we count up the 'likes' and comments,
retweets and mentions, friends and followers...we measure our professional success
on the number of new clothes or shoes or watches we buy every weekend and how
much money we spent gives us the only real 'demonstration' of true
quality...how much fun we had on a night out is obviously entirely relational
to the number of shots we had...and a potentially direct product of shots of
course is sex...and yes, even sex is on our list of quantification!! How long
sex lasts tells us how good it was and how many people we've had sex with shows
how good we must be...and what do you want to do after sex? No, not cuddle!
Sleep...and yup, you guessed it – now we’re even measuring sleep! Not just in
the number of hours we've snoozed for, but we use things like the sleep cycle app to give us a graph of how well we've slept and we get given a score on our
sleep quality...which, although interesting, is also slightly baffling right? Forget
whether we feel rested or not, we need to be told we slept well, so if 'sleep
cycle' says '49% sleep quality' then cancel breakfast and head back to bed!
And
I think about these things.
And
they all seem to be symptomatic of a society bewildered by its own insecurities
to the point where we feel the need to seek validation for
everything...everything!

Will
this change anytime soon? No. If anything, I can see everyday life becoming
increasingly numerical, and while I’m not saying this is a good or a bad thing,
maybe in the meantime we can start looking into the sentiment behind things
over and above the quantity...y'know?
Ah
I dunno...maybe this makes sense, maybe it doesn’t…I didn't make any
promises...just remember to 'like' it on Facebook ,
OK ??
Just
a thought...
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