Eckhart Tolle argues that many people are burdened by their "life story"—a narrative they mistake for their identity—which traps them and causes suffering. He contrasts this inner heaviness with the misleading appearance of happiness on social media, where people post curated images (e.g., food photos), exacerbating others' sense of isolation or misery.
The burden that humans carry is their life story, but they confuse it with who they are. So they're completely trapped in a story which they call my life. And it's heavy for most humans. You think others do not experience the heaviness of themselves because they post happy pictures on Facebook, and then you feel I'm the only one who is miserable because they're all happy. And they show you what they're eating. Pictures of the plates. Look what I'm eating right now.
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