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1. In your opinion, who killed Bunny?
2. How does the playwright/ director keep the audience engaged?
3. As an audience member, explain why you want to know who killed Bunny.

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Extract - Welcome to our killer reveal party

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I personally agree with the story and think that Cinda Cunnning killed Bunny.

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2. How does the playwright/director keep the audience engaged? 

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2. How does the playwright/director keep the audience engaged? 

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The playwright/director keeps the audience engaged by creating suspension, and adding some personality into the characters which intrigues you into the story, hence keeping the audience in interest.

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What do you need to know in order to answer the driving question by the end of term?

This could include

The definition of key words

Exploring themes

Investigating the impacts of certain actions

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3. As an audience member, explain why you want to know who killed Bunny. 

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3. As an audience member, explain why you want to know who killed Bunny. 

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The playwright/director has drawn us into the story in such a creative way, and we're throughout the story we're constantly discovering new characters and accusations of who may have killed bunny. The story is so interestnig that I want to know who killed Bunny as the writer has left us hanging off a cliff wanting to know more.

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- what is inclination
- what does it mean to discover a missing piece
- do all humans possess natural inclination

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Why do humans need 'to know' things? Why are we so scared of missing out?

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Human Nature:

Humans are pretty smart. Indeed, Linnaeus was so impressed with us that in 1758 he named our species Homo sapiens ("Homo" is Latin for man, "sapiens" is Latin for wise or knowing). We have certainly had our share of geniuses. Look at all we've accomplished: art, music, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. We recognize the periodic table of the elements, physical laws of motion, the laws of thermodynamics, as well as Einstein's theory of relativity. We have dated our cosmos back to the big bang 13.8 billion years ago. We have studied the fossil record and know when life arose and how it has evolved. We know how genetics works and we can sequence and interpret DNA and even splice genes between different species to make genetically modified organisms (which may well prove to be a grave mistake). We know about microscopic viruses and bacteria as as well as our own microbiomes. We have begun to explore space. It is a tribute to human intellect that we even have words like eternity, infinity, and hypervolume, all concepts totally alien to our limited existence in time and space. We are the only product of natural selection that understands where we came from and how we got here. These are truly remarkable feats and humans have much of which we can rightfully be  proud.

Implications to human nature

Unless we can change our behaviour, humans are facing the end of civilization. Our problem has several elements. (1) We have invented social and economic systems that encourage greedy behaviour, and we have actually institutionalised runaway greed. (2) We are in a state of complete denial about the growth of human populations. (3) Earth's finite resources simply cannot support 7+ billion of us in the style to which we'd like to live. (4) We must make a choice between quantity and quality of human life. (5) To head off the inevitable collapse, we can no longer wait and merely react but we must become proactive. We must find ways to control dangerous human instincts, especially our greed and our urge to procreate.

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What are humans inclined to do?

Desire to 'know'.

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Curiosity - humans are naturally curious

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Morals and ethics

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Reason

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Because human nature is made of curiosity, morals/ethics and reason - we are INCLINED to 'know' (search for the missing piece)

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The human craving to know and understand is the driving force behind our development as individuals and even our success as a species. But curiosity can also be dangerous, leading to stumbles or even downfalls, so why does this impulse so often compel us throughout life?

Put another way, why are humans so curious? And given curiosity's complexity, do scientists even have a definition for this innate drive?

Curiosity is so ingrained, it helps us learn as babies and survive as adults. As for the definition, there isn't one set in stone. Researchers across many disciplines are interested in curiosity, so it's no surprise there isn't a widely accepted definition of the term. William James, one of the first modern psychologists, it "the impulse towards better cognition." Ivan Pavlov that dogs (of course it was dogs) are curious about novel stimuli through the "what-is-it?" reflex that causes them to focus spontaneously on something new that comes into their environment.
Related: Why haven't all primates evolved into humans?
While pinning down a definition has proven tricky, "the general consensus is it's some means of information gathering," Katherine Twomey, a lecturer in language and communicative development at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, told Live Science.

Psychologists also agree that curiosity isn't about satisfying an immediate need, like hunger or thirst; rather, it's intrinsically motivated.

Making our way in the world

Curiosity encompasses such a large set of behaviors, there probably isn't any single "curiosity gene" that makes humans wonder about the world and explore their environment. That said, curiosity does have a genetic component. Genes and the environment interact in many complex ways to shape individuals and guide their behavior, including their curiosity.

Researchers did changes to a specific gene type that is more common in individual songbirds that are especially keen on exploring their environment, according to a 2007 study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biological Science. In humans, mutations in this gene, known as , have been associated with a person's propensity to seek novelty.

Regardless of their genetic makeup, infants have to learn an incredible amount of information in a short window of time, and curiosity is one of the tools humans have found to accomplish that gargantuan task.

"If infants weren't curious, they'd never learn anything and development wouldn't happen, Twomey said.

Hundreds of studies show that infants prefer novelty. In a classic 1964 , a psychologist showed that infants between 2 months and 6 months old grew less and less interested in a complex visual pattern the more they looked at it. A 1983 study in the journal Developmental Psychology of slightly older children (ages 8 months and 12 months old) indicated that once babies got used to familiar toys, they preferred new ones, a scenario that caregivers likely know all too well.

This preference for novelty has a name: perceptual curiosity. It's what motivates non-human animals, human infants and probably human adults to explore and seek out new things before growing less interested in them after continued exposure.

As these studies show, infants do this all the time. Babbling is one example.

"The exploration they do is systematic ," Twomey said. When most babies are just a few months old, they start making vowel and repetitive, speech-like sounds as they learn how to speak. Babbling demonstrates the utility of perceptual curiosity. It begins as a completely random exploration of what their vocal anatomy can do.

Eventually "they'll hit on something and think 'That sounds like something my mum or dad would do,'" she said. And then they do it again. And again.

But it isn't just infants. are famous for using perceptual curiosity as a means of learning. For instance, the drive to explore their environment probably helps crows learn to fashion the simple tools they use to fish larvae out of hard-to-reach crevices. Moreover, experiments with programmed to be curious have shown that exploration is a powerful way to adapt to a new environment.

Making the world work for us

Another kind of curiosity is distinctively human. Psychologists call it epistemic curiosity, and it's about seeking knowledge and eliminating uncertainty. Epistemic curiosity emerges later in life and might require complex language, Twomey said.

For Agustín Fuentes, a professor of anthropology at Princeton University, this form of curiosity has set humans - and probably all members of the genus Homo - apart from other animals and paved the way for us to populate nearly every corner of the world, inventing technologies from hand axes to smart phones.

"Humans, in our distinctive lineage, went beyond simply tweaking nature to imagining and inventing whole new possibilities that emerge from that kind of curiosity," Fuentes told Live Science.

But curiosity comes with a cost. Just because humans can imagine something doesn't mean it will work, at least not at first. In some situations, the stakes are low and failure is a healthy part of growth. For instance, many babies are perfectly proficient crawlers, but they decide to try walking because there's more to see and do when they stand upright, according to Twomey. But this milestone comes at a small cost. A study of 12- to 19-month-olds learning how to walk documented that these children fell down a lot. Seventeen times per hour, to be exact. But walking is faster than crawling, so this "motivates expert crawlers to transition to walking," the researchers wrote in the 2012 study, published in the journal Psychological Science.

Sometimes, however, testing out a new idea can lead to disaster.

"Curiosity probably led to the vast majority of human populations going extinct," Fuentes said.

For instance, the Inuit of the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada and Alaska, and the Sámi people of Europe's northern reaches have "created incredible modes to deal with the challenges" of living in northern climates, but "what we forget about are the probably tens of thousands of populations that tried and failed to make it" in those challenging landscapes, he said.
Originally published on Live Science.
Ultimately, curiosity is about survival. Not all curious humans lived to pass their penchant for exploration on to their descendants, but those who did helped create a species that can't help but think, "Huh, I wonder what would happen if ..."

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(Image credit: Shutterstock) The human craving to know and understand is the driving force behind our development as individuals and even our success as a species. But curiosity can also be dangerous, leading to stumbles or even downfalls, so why does this impulse so often compel us throughout life?

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- reason is what helps us make decisions

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- reason is related to our mind's ability to think logically and rationally by consciously applying logic that's based on new or existing information

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- reason is also known as rationality

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- reasons to make decisions can be influenced by many factors such as logical thinking, past experiences etc

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- curiosity isn't about satisfying an immediate need, like hunger or thirst; rather, it's internally motivated.

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- Genes and the environment interact in many complex ways to shape individuals and guide their behavior, including their curiosity.

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- Curiosity is generally what drives humans' minds towards a decision as they want to know more about or of something

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- Morals are the prevailing standards of behaviour that enable people to live cooperatively in groups.

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- Morals often require that people sacrifice their own short-term interests for the benefit of the society

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- People use the terms moral or ethics when talking about beliefs, actions or principles.

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I've said this before, but it bears repeating: we are, all of us, meaning-seeking creatures. We seek not only to define the meaning of our lives by adopting, whether consciously or unconsciously, an over-arching purpose, but also to understand the reason for almost everything that happens in the course of each day. Why did our boss change our work schedule? Why does our spouse care so much about the clothes we wear? Why is traffic snarled for miles ahead of us? Why did that man in the news kidnap and rape that girl?

Why is what drives not only everything we do, but also our emotional reactions to everything that happens to us. Imagine how quickly your frustration at encountering that traffic jam on your way home from work would turn into horror if, as you passed the accident that caused it, you caught a glimpse of a mangled corpse lying beside a totaled car. Or how easily the irritation you'd feel at being told you have to work an extra shift at work each week for the next two months might turn into a willingness to contribute when you learn the reason is that one of your colleagues was just diagnosed with cancer and needs to spend that time getting chemotherapy.

We're simply far more likely to accept a change if we understand the reason for it. Interestingly, our acceptance seems to hinge less on how much we like the reason and more on how much sense the reason makes to us. Even if the change fails to benefit us-even if it causes us harm in some way-if our sense of fairness is satisfied, we're far more likely to accept and even embrace it.

When explanations aren't forthcoming, on the other hand, poor outcomes frequently ensue. Employees who don't understand the reason for management's decisions are at risk for becoming disgruntled, disempowered, and even depressed. This leads to poorer job satisfaction, work quality, and customer service-and a diminishing work force (as employees seek employment elsewhere). It also leads to anger against authority and a tendency to presume incompetence and even corruption.

The general public, for example, is provided little to no insight into the detailed thought processes that go into many governmental decisions. How do we know our officials have considered all the angles and come to the best decision possible? All we're given is their decision and a political sound bite designed to provide the appearance of an explanation.

One wonders why so few politicians have tumbled to this secret: a truly transparent thought process is the best defense against becoming unpopular. Polls suggest the majority of the American public doesn't like the health care law (even while finding itself in favor of many of its provisions). Imagine if President Obama publicly described in detail the exact thinking that led him to sign it. I don't raise this possibility to compliment or criticize the content of the law (I've already done both here), but to suggest the likely truth that felt ambivalent about it. (How could he have liked everything in something so massive, drafted by so many different people?) What if he told us about how much he struggled with the decision to accept the things he didn't like in it and to let go of the things he couldn't get included in order to sign into law the things he could and did? Even if you hate the legislation, you might actually find his thought process reasonably sound. And if you did, you might even ask yourself, perhaps for the first time, what you would have done had you been in his position. You might, just for a moment, stop thinking about what you think the law means for the country and you personally and instead think about the decision to sign the bill from the point of view of the person who was faced with the decision whether or not to sign it. It's easy to criticize a decision-to feel that something was done to you rather than for you-when you only know what was decided and not why.

The negative impact of being left in the dark about why things are done the way they are can be so extreme for some people that explaining our thinking to others actually represents an opportunity to contribute to their well-being. Research has suggested that taking the time to explain yourself will help your children develop a moral conscience, your students achieve mastery, your employees stay happy, and your personal relationships flourish.

And when you find yourself having an abruptly negative reaction to something someone else has done, fire up your empathy muscles and ask yourself (or, better yet, them) why they did what they did. Start a dialogue instead of a conflict. You never know: you just might find their choice was actually a good one.
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I've said this before, but it bears repeating: we are, all of us, meaning-seeking creatures. We seek not only to define the meaning of our lives by adopting, whether consciously or unconsciously, an over-arching purpose, but also to understand the reason for almost everything that happens in the course of each day.

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- when explanations aren't forthcoming, poor outcomes ensue

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- Why is what drives not only everything we do, but also our emotional reactions to everything that happens to us.

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- The negative impact of being left in the dark about why things are done the way they are can be so extreme for some people that explaining our thinking to others actually represents an opportunity to contribute to their well-being.

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- Research has suggested that taking the time to explain yourself will help your children develop a moral conscience, your students achieve mastery, your employees stay happy, and your personal relationships flourish.

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(WORK SAMPLE) Checkpoint 1 - My Time to Crime

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(Guiding Questions) Checkpoint 1 - My Time to Crime

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Throughout history, humankind has shared an innate trait – the desire to explore.

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FOMO, or "fear of missing out," is a real phenomenon that is becoming increasingly common and can cause significant stress in your life. It can affect just about anyone, but some people are at greater risk.

Here is what you should know about the history of FOMO, what research says, how to recognize it in your life, and how to manage FOMO to keep it from negatively affecting your happiness.

What Is FOMO?

The fear of missing out refers to the feeling or perception that others are having more fun, living better lives, or experiencing better things than you are. It involves a deep sense of envy and affects self-esteem. It is often exacerbated by social media sites like Instagram and Facebook.

FOMO:

It can apply to anything from a party on a Friday night to a promotion at work, but it always involves a sense of helplessness that you are missing out on something big.

Brief History of FOMO

The idea that you might be missing out on a good time is not new to our era. However, while it has presumably been around for centuries (you can see evidence of FOMO in ancient texts), it has only been studied during the past few decades, beginning with a 1996 research paper by marketing strategist, Dr. Dan Herman, who coined the term "fear of missing out."

Since the advent of social media, however, FOMO has become more obvious and has been studied more often. Social media has accelerated the FOMO phenomenon in several ways. It provides a situation in which you are comparing your regular life to the highlights of others' lives.

Therefore, your sense of "normal" becomes skewed and you seem to be doing worse than your peers. You might see detailed photos of your friends enjoying fun times without you, which is something that people may not have been so readily aware of in past generations.

Social media creates a platform for bragging; it is where things, events, and even happiness itself seems to be in competition at times. People are comparing their best, picture-perfect experiences, which may lead you to wonder what you are lacking.

Related Terms

Inspired by FOMO, several other related concepts have also emerged:

FOBO (Fear of Better Options): This refers to fearing that you are missing out on potentially better alternatives.

MOMO (Mystery of Missing Out): This refers to fearing that you are missing out but not having any clues about what you're missing out on.

ROMO: (Reality of Missing Out): This refers to knowing that you aren't missing out on anything.

FOJI (Fear of Joining In): The fear of sharing things on social media but not garnering any response.

JOMO (Joy of Missing Out): This is the opposite of FOMO and refers to positive feelings about missing out or disconnecting from social media.

Research on FOMO

As more research on FOMO is conducted and becomes available, we are getting a clearer picture of what it entails and how it affects us. The picture is not pretty, as there are many negative effects of FOMO, and it is more common than you might expect. Consider the following:

Social Networking Sites

Unsurprisingly, adolescents use social networking sites at a high rate and may experience FOMO as a result. Interestingly, however, FOMO acts as a mechanism that triggers higher social networking usage.

FOMO, Age, and Gender

People of all ages can experience FOMO, several studies have found. One study in the Psychiatry Research journal found that the fear of missing out was linked to greater smartphone and social media usage and that this link was not associated with age or gender.

So what is the key cause of FOMO? While multiple factors likely play a role, the research also found that social media use and "problematic" smartphone usage were linked with a greater experience of FOMO. Smartphone usage was related to fears of negative and even positive evaluations by others as well as linked to negative effects on mood.

Adolescents and young people may be particularly susceptible to the effects of FOMO. Seeing friends and others posting on social media can lead to comparison and an intense fear of missing out on things their peers are experiencing.

Research suggests that in some teens, FOMO can play a role in:

FOMO can contribute to peer pressure, leading teens to engage in risky behaviors they might otherwise avoid. Because the teenage brain is still developing, teens may engage in such actions without considering the lasting consequences.

Life Satisfaction Rating

Another article published in Computers and Human Behavior found several trends associated with FOMO. Fear of missing out was found to be associated with a lower sense of having one's needs met as well as a lower feeling of life satisfaction in general.

FOMO was heavily linked to higher engagement in social media, as other studies have suggested-it appears that FOMO is linked to both feeling a need to engage in social media and increasing that engagement. This means that FOMO and social media habits may contribute to a negative, self-perpetuating cycle.

Potential Dangers of FOMO

Aside from increased feelings of unhappiness, fear of missing out can lead to greater involvement in unhealthy behaviors. For example, the same study in Computers and Human Behavior found that FOMO was linked to distracted driving, which in some cases can be deadly.

Minimizing FOMO

Fortunately, steps can be taken to curb your FOMO if it is something you experience.

In turn, greater engagement with social media can make us feel worse about ourselves and our lives, not better. In this way, it helps to know that our attempts to alleviate feelings of FOMO can actually lead to behaviors that exacerbate it. ​Understanding where the problem lies, however, can be a great first step in overcoming it. The following can help.

Change Your Focus

Rather than focusing on what you lack, try noticing what you have. This is easier said than done on social media, where we may be bombarded with images of things we do not have, but it can be done. Add more positive people to your feed; hide people who tend to brag too much or who are not supportive of you.

You can change your feed to show you less of what triggers your FOMO and more of what makes you feel good about yourself. Work on identifying what may be sapping your joy online. Work to minimize these as you add more to your feed (and life) that makes you happy.

Try a Digital Detox

Spending too much time on your phone or social media apps can increase FOMO. Reducing your usage, or even doing a digital detox where you take a break from digital devices, may help you focus more on your life without making constant comparisons.

If doing a complete digital detox isn't possible, consider limiting your use of certain social media apps that make you feel as if you are missing out. Temporarily remove those apps, set daily limits on how much you will use them, or cull your feel to remove people who make you feel bad about yourself or your life.

Keep a Journal

It is common to post on social media to keep a record of the fun things you do. However, you may find yourself noticing a little too much about whether people are validating your experiences online. If this is the case, you may want to take some of your photos and memories offline and keep a personal journal of your best memories, either online or on paper.

Seek Out Real Connections

You may find yourself seeking a greater connection when you are feeling depressed or anxious, and this is healthy. Feelings of loneliness or exclusion are actually our brain's way of telling us that we want to seek out greater connections with others and increase our sense of belonging.

Unfortunately, social media engagement is not always the way to accomplish this-you might be running from one bad situation right into an even worse one. Rather than trying to connect more with people on social media, why not arrange to meet up with someone in person?

Making plans with a good friend, creating a group outing, or doing anything social that gets you out with friends can be a nice change of pace, and it can help you to shake that feeling that you are missing out. It puts you in the center of the action.

If you do not have time to make plans, even a direct message on social media to a friend can foster a greater and more intimate connection than posting to all of your friends and hoping for "likes."

Focus on Gratitude

Studies show that engaging in gratitude-enhancing activities like gratitude journaling or simply telling others what you appreciate about them can lift your spirits as well as those of everyone around you.

This is partially because it is harder to feel as if you lack the things you need in life when you are focused on the abundance you already have. It also holds true because making others feel good makes us feel good.

A lift in mood may be just what you need to relieve yourself of feeling depressed or anxious. You likely will not feel as tempted to go down the rabbit hole of social networking and FOMO when you realize how much you already have. You will begin to feel that you have what you need in life and so do other people. This can be wonderful for your mental and emotional health.

A Word From Verywell

Although FOMO is strongly correlated with social media usage, it is important to remember that it is a very real and common feeling among people of all ages. Everyone feels a certain level of FOMO at different times in their lives.

If you feel you are suffering from feelings of missing out, it can be helpful to reach out to a friend or spend some time reflecting on the things you are grateful for in your life. Activities like these can help us put things in perspective as we gather a greater sense of belonging and release the anxiety of "missing out" on anything.

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FOMO, or "fear of missing out," is a real phenomenon that is becoming increasingly common and can cause significant stress in your life. It can affect just about anyone, but some people are at greater risk.

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- The fear of missing out is abbreviated to FOMO

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- FOMO refers to the feeling or perception that others are having more fun, living better lives or experiencing better things than you are.

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- It involves a deep sense of envy and affects your self esteem.

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- FOMO is not just the sense that there might be better things that you could be doing at this moment, but it is the feeling that you are missing out on something fundamentally important that others are experiencing right now.