Welcome to the Virtual Escape Room (Also Known as Life in 2025)

Let’s be real: life in 2025 feels like a never-ending episode of reels, photos with filters, and fabricated videos. Our lives are so deeply entangled with screens that the line between real and virtual worlds is barely visible. But it’s not just about convenience anymore—it’s about escape, and the desperate race to keep up with whatever’s trending this week.

🐭 The Rat Race of Relevance

In the age of content creators and hyper-curated aesthetics, everyone is chasing the next big thing—whether it's the black-and-white photo dump, Ghibli trend, or dance video on the latest Bollywood number, whether it be Tubaa-Taubaa starring Vicky Kaushal or Uii Amma starring Rasha Thadani. People live for virtual friends' likes or comments, not for themselves.

You wake up, and before finishing brushing your teeth, you’re already bombarded with “Skin care Routines " Get Ready with me" videos on your social media handles. Miss one trend, and you’ve fallen behind in the race. But here’s the twist- there’s no finish line.

 Dependency Dressed as Convenience

Let’s face it—tech is no longer optional. Today, everyone needs the internet to work, shop, connect, bank, learn, entertain, and even curate a new dish or consult a doctor.

📲 From UPI to You: Our App Dependency

We’ve traded wallets for UPI apps, shops & malls for one-tap checkout, and home-cooked meals for food delivery.

• Shopping Apps: Can’t find that limited-edition sneaker drop in real stores? No problem. With a few taps on your favorite shopping app, it’s reaching your doorstep in a few minutes—no in-person effort required.

• Food Delivery: Craving biryani at 2 AM? There’s an app for that. Midnight cravings once meant cooking or going out; now they mean scrolling through glossy menus and swiping to order.

• UPI Pay-Fest: Splitting bills, paying rent, even donating to charity—all done via UPI. Tap your phone and money vanishes, faster than you can say “confirm.”

  This ecosystem of apps isn’t just convenient—it’s addictive. When your UPI balance drops to zero, the panic is real. When the food app crashes, dinner disappears. We outsource our basic needs and impulses to right swipes & left swipes.

  Balancing is the key

  
  

  

  
  

  All this escapism can quietly turn into emotional turmoil. Our personalities have become Pinterest boards. Our goals? Whatever’s getting the most likes this month. Balancing online and offline life is the modern version of walking on a tightrope while being chased by notifications, The virtual world can be magical—yes. But if we lose touch with the messy, unpredictable beauty of reality, we are risking our physical and mental health, It’s not about rejecting the digital world—it’s about creating a rhythm where the virtual world enhances your productivity & embraces your reality, rather than replacing it.