Direction: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

In the absence of perspectives, criteria and foundational principles, what you are learning comes from garbage sources only meant to appeal to your fantasies. These sources include endless streams of movies, TV shows, current creators who qualify as reality TV actors, traditional celebrities, models, bloggers, lifestyle bloggers, YouTubers, Instagram influencers, Facebook celebrities, pop stars, and this star and that star on whichever two-bit app you spend your time on. Their objective is not to provide any knowledge or information about the harsh realities of life. Their objective is to provide entertainment, set unachievable standards and get you hooked on a lifestyle that you cannot afford nor sustain.

We are living in the age of modern advertising in which humans are the products. When you buy, you are buying who they are, how they live, who they date, who their friends are, what they wear and what they do. You want a relationship like the one you saw on TV shows or movies. You want to have like those people you saw on web series. You want a life partner like a girl/boy you saw in a movie. You want to have a lifestyle like those people you follow on social media platforms.

Do you want to know the truth behind all these? The truth is they know you want and like. Due to this reason, they have millions and millions of followers which helps to earn them millions of dollars. You are one of the millions of their followers who is following them blindly.

But the fact is your life is not a movie. Boyfriends or girlfriends from TV shows don’t exist in real life. Unless you detach yourself from all these, you won’t be able to grow mentally and financially. These are just a part of life, not a life.