don't be afraid to miss out.

We all experience the fear of missing out or fomo for short. But what we fail to realize is that it's sometimes good to miss out on somethings.

[SvengelskaBlondie]

Funny enough, you will always miss out on something. It's pretty much impossible to be everywhere and/or do everything, just need to prioritize what you want to be part of.

[ThomasGTM]

I was just having a bit of this the other day and it was really eating at me. Later that day I got asked to come help do something with someone and totally forgot everything that I was having FOMO over! Thanks you niko again for another W video! ❤

[joshingwithyahaha]

Perfect timing you made this video! Story time :)

So, I graduated high school yesterday!! The day before my graduation, my friends and I went to this event called "Senior Sunset". Just a bunch of seniors from different schools go to watch the sunset. At first I was like "eh..." but I sucked it up and just went through with the event because this is my last time of being a senior, or high schooler. I was informed about this from my close friend, she saw a story on Instagram about "Senior Sunset". So I drove my friend group, 30 minutes, to the hang out. Everyone is at the top of this hill, I get to the top of the hill and I do not know why but the energy just felt so fake. People were just vaping and on their phones, taking pictures of themselves, and then going back on their phones... I am sorry but that felt so fake. I felt disgusted, and all the people that were there were just popular kids from my school. I didn't belong there, I do not want to belong there. I never want to fit in with those people who only care about status. The conversations I was hearing was just lame gossip of who broke up, who did you know what with you, who got a new car, it was so lame. Thank god my friends got the whiff the air as well, and we dipped not even ten minutes later! 😂

We turned a bad-ish night into a good night though! We were at Sonic and only the drive through was opened, there were only 3 people working and someone ordered the entire menu so we had to wait in the drive through for TWENTY MINUTUES!!! It was hilarious af and we were all cracking up in the car just being goofballs. So guys, obviously this could have gone completely different. Maybe there could've been games at the sunset! But, you really do not need to have a fear of missing out of what others are doing. Sometimes, it could go completely different from what you were expecting.

[colin]

Okay are you in my mind or something? This is so helpful to me right now especially.

[ZealotPara]

That gym analogy was exactly something I've been through. I spent so much of my life committing to things I knew deep down I would hate, but I felt pressured to do them because I wanted to fit in and not be made fun of anymore for being weird. Turns out I'm always gonna be weird no matter what I do, so might as well live on my own terms.
Thank you so much for sharing this message. It's such an undervalued lesson that isn't nearly talked about enough. The beauty of missing out on things is you can learn to appreciate what you already have and you might discover awesome things that were always there for you that you never really paid attention to before. You just need to train yourself to get satisfaction from the little things. It ain't easy to achieve that mindset, but the work you put into getting it absolutely will pay off.

[AtraxX]

This is very wise and true. Especially for those who maybe struggle a bit with mental health or generally don’t have the usual interests most people see as "cool" I had the same group of "cool kids" at my school and I never really liked them honestly, they were pretty much stupid as*holes who liked bullying other and put themselves over others. But because they smoked and drank alcohol and included me sometimes, I thought I needed to make stuff with them. The funny thing is some of them on their own wasn’t that bad but as soon as they were as a group, holy fuck, I don’t know why I spent a single second with them. They invited me to some parties but I always felt tired and didn’t really want to go. My parents also were this kind of "go outside, go party only then you will have fun, don’t stay home with your laptop playing the whole night with friends, that’s bad and your not truly having fun!" when I actually laughed and didn’t have to be someone else. It took a decade until I accepted myself, cause I always felt bad when they told everyone how they went partying.I felt bad that I don’t have the same expensive clothes.

If I could go back in time, I would punch myself in the face and say stop trying to pretend something you don’t like. Stop trying to be a person you don’t like. Stop thinking there is a norm for "cool" people. Stop thinking that you need to look like them to be attractive.

If I learned one thing, it’s that passion makes you attractive to others. Staying true to yourself, pursuing what you believe is right is the best thing you can do. And trust me, people will like you for that, and the ones that don’t, fuck them! why do you care about them, seriously. School doesn’t matter in terms of social life, it really don’t if you don’t have the right people.

It broke me and I had to learn it the worst possible way, almost throwing everything away just because I didn’t feel "normal". I know you know the fact but it should be your first Mantra: It doesn’t matter what other people think! Only you matter in the end. Not even your family or friends! And especially not the cool kid from school who already had 3 girlfriends and always wear expensive clothes.

It’s only you in the End that matters and will make you happy.
And what doesn’t make you happy is not worth keeping, not a friend, not a hobby, sadly sometimes not even a family member.

[SubsonicFoil]

my solution to fomo is that i find a few people who im good friends with and are nearly always free to do actually fun stuff with. So i have one friend who will take me around everywhere with his golf cart and we go around fishing fun spots, I have one friend who has a car and loves food so we always go out to eat, and I have another friend who goes to the gym all the time and can let me into his neighborhood fitness center all the time. So im always doing stuff and never 'missing out' on things i dont rlly want to do bc im always doing things i actually want to do

[RaVen]

almost 100k subs wow your channel has grown

[ysk]

I think I struggle with this a lot. I'm always afraid that I will miss out and stress myself out so much that I began to stop looking for activities or plans before they were even created. Thanks for this video niko!

[aidenr.stewart]

watching this as my years prom is going on, i left highschool a couple years ago and seeing everyone all dressed up with their friends left me with a weird feeling

[aquawrld]

fomo is insane because people tended to fear missing out on stuff they’re actually going to benefit from socially or something like that. But now it’s just “i wanna feel included” which isn’t always possible. And then that person gets really upset and lets that define their week from now on.

[soginisa]

I’m becoming more and more of a massive pushover, and I’m a mat for people to walk over, literally. I just follow people because I don’t want to be cast away, to be thrown away cause my friends and the people around me can do that really easily. I let people walk over me, because in my head, if I don’t follow them or do what they ask me to do, they’ll leave me or like me less then before.

This has made me a bit more conscious of pushover behavior, and I’ll try to speak my mind more and make my own decisions. Soo.. thanks :)

[KindilVig]

Im happy that i didn't miss out on niko's newest upload.

[Narko_Marko]

I don't understand why people just refuse to invite someone when that person wouldn't bother anyone and just wants to be there. I have a friend who is a bit socially awkward and no one wants to invite him anywhere and a lot of people hate him for no reason, when I invite him he usually just sits there not bothering anyone, not talking a lot but he is having fun with us.

A lot of people i know are very cynical, like everyone is out to get them. I try to act as if everyone is nice and i try to be nice to everyone, i fail of course but when i do I don't think the other person is evil, everyone does what they think is best.

[dineon]

I just found you last night and you’ve already changed how I view things I really appreciate you and your posts keep up the work ‼️

[backyardjungle]

Love how he says goodnight like he knows we're all watching this at 2am

[crispy.dragon]

I'm finding your videos in the perfect moment, I've always felt like the weird kid that was left out, for all of high school and now I'm working on myself to understand who I really want to be, while trying not to get involved with the idea that I should be in a certain way just to fit in. Thank you

[Bigburgar]

bro please make a podcast. your voice is so soothing and you talk about amazing stuff

[fromanobody]

Crazy you mentioned this man because its something I've been struggling with. Nice to hear your thoughts as always brotha!

[criticalhitentertainment]

This guy has quickly become my favorite youtuber, just a guy who plays Minecraft and offers some of the best life advice on the platform