I came across the abbreviation FOMOMG for the first time this weekend. Coined with the aid of the model, designer, and author Leomie Anderson, FOMOMG (Fear of Missing Out on My Goals) displays her feeling that she is jogging out of time to perform her dreams.

This is something I can really discover; I, in reality, have an idea I could have a Bafta by it now. I spoke to my teenage cousins about their lifestyles and brand teams. By the point my age t,  they want holiday homes abroad, million-pound salaries,  and supercars – while such wildly formidable dreams become a regular art of millennial life? The 3 of them are obsessed with Instagram and Snapchat, obsessed with their peer’s view of their lives. Immense wealth is a pleasing concept, but with more graduates than ever before having to do internships before making any form of salary, a greater realistic goal list might be. No 1: Pass out of Mum’s house.

It got me considering the list I created as a teen. I wasn’t pretty as bold as youngsters of these days; however, I surely had hope. First, “A house, maybe two, by using 30.” How precocious. No wonder I wasn’t popular. This hasn’t worked out flawlessly. At 32, I stayed with my accomplice in an anx-council flat in east London. While we speak about getting at the belongings ladder on a daily foundation, it doesn’t get us any nearer. It appears that if I’m ever in a position to shop for a house in any respect, I’ll control it just before I did – so, at least my destiny children (if I can ever afford them) can inherit it. That’s a firm move thru ambition No 1, then.

No 2: “Have a job I love.” I have managed this one and feel notably privileged to have accomplished so. I love being a comedian. However, it is also my predominant source of fear of Missing Out). TrTravelingll over th of every week is superb. However, it does often mean my Saturday dinner is a store-bought sandwich in the dingy backroom of a comedy membership (the glamour), scrolling through Instagram posts of events I am lacking: friends’ 30ths, family’ weddings, some random girl from faculty doing photographs in a Texas-themed nightclub (the vicinity, not the band).

Never before have we been able to stalk others so overtly. Once upon a time, if you wanted to find out what Karen from school had performed along with her existence, you’d have to music her down and befriend her (or cover in her boxes). Now, with a few clicks, you could see she is fortuitously married, has two beautiful kids and a handsome husband, and has been on two journeys overseas this year. It’s very easy to become jealous of people’s Instagram-filtered existence. It’s neat to be triumph over with Fomo.

The 1/3 aim of my listing of lifestyles to-dos was “journey the arena”. I haven’t managed that, as I’ve been too focused on saving for the two houses I haven’t offered. When I chatted to a pal about the pub on Sunday, she cited that obtaining married could have been quite on her list. It wasn’t on mine, probably because, as a closeted youngster, marriage wasn’t even an option. That can be brought to the reputedly neverending list, which now consists of swimming with dolphins, going to Disneyland, climbing a mountain, and writing a unique. Now, this list is just putting me up for failure.

I recommend we rip up the lists and plans. Maybe we need to be more honest on social media about the United States of America and the downs of lifestyles. I will start here: I controlled myself in a bathroom cubicle moments before going on stage last month. With no different preference, I climbed over the top, ripped my trousers, and fell into a puddle on the ground, which turned into likely urine. You’re welcome.

Taxi for the robots!
I wouldn’t take a robotic cab. Sorry, Addison Lee, but I’ve seen Black Mirror, as have hundreds of others, so I know I’m not the most effective one that reveals the idea of a driverless fleet of taxis terrifying.

Admittedly, I have not been a lot of a robotic fan. Maybe my lack of interest became because of Star Wars’ C3PO, who, don’t inquire why I determined terrifying. I suppose it has to do with the way he walks. As a child, I received Christmas as soon as possible, but that became as quickly as possible simply because of a lack of buddies as opposed to the love of anything Android.

It’s now not simply the logistics of a driverless cab which might be scary (what if it locks the doors and kidnaps me?) or the truth that the fast evolution of AI makes me experience as if I’m residing in a sci-fi film (let’s be sincere, they hardly ever end well). Computerized cabs are just some other manner for humans to forestall speaking. It’s a further step toward an international wherein you sit down on maintain to talk to a computer about your loss of wifi.

And if the communicative achievement of robotic checkouts is something to head via, I am no longer retaining my breath for the driverless taxi. I actually have never used one without at least as soon having to get the attention of the solo ex-cashier strolling about with a handful of reusable luggage, sweat on her forehead, and a longing in her eyes for the bygone days while she would ask: “Have you acquire a Club Card, love?”

No, I like a bit of human interaction. I could pass over chatting to a cabbie – the marginally awkward conversations at some stage in an election, making up a profession after I don’t want to mention I am a comedian, the wintry weather two years in the past while a cab motive force and I sang all of Last Christmas. I’ll hail a cabbie when the driverless taxi revolution takes to the air.

Are DVDs finished? I’ll await the reboot. The cupboard beneath my TV is full of DVDs. Movies, collections, standup shows – masses of leisure hours, all blanketed in dust. I can’t recall the final time I opened the DVD participant. I’m sure it would creak like the door to a deserted residence if I tried. John Lewis said this week that it will forestall stocking DVD gamers; the rise of streaming and catch-up TV has made them redundant. I can be preserving a preserve of mine, even though. It’s simplest to count time before we are inundated with unfashionable, pop-up, vegan DVD bars, wherein punters watch the extras at the When Harry Met Sally bonus disc. When the time comes, they will be welcome to borrow my copy.