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With age comes a desire to go incognito. The need to exist loudly must have burnt out in my teenage years, when I once yearned to be seen on the guest lists of parties; to be heard hollering through the microphone with my boisterous friends at school camps, which were really just fully-sponsored popularity contests to indulge our egos with. These days I just want to watch the world without it watching me back. But all around me is this talk about "working so hard so you never have to introduce yourself" and "living your life how you want to be remembered by", as if the only proof of a life well lived is an indelible mark left behind. So many have since surrendered their own approval to one another such that everyone is running their own marketing campaigns but few spend any time working on the product. In my 2nd or 3rd year in the media industry a well-meaning person advised that I create my personal branding on Instagram. Another suggested I ought to monetize it more. It is all so silly. There is so much noise, yet nothing really worth listening to.