Nope, it’s not a typo. Wellness-seekers, forget FOMO and discover a new route to happiness
That’s what you call JOMO – the joy of missing out. An upbeat antidote to its glass half-empty cousin FOMO (the fear of missing out), the term exploded into the mainstream thanks to US blogger and entrepreneur Anil Dash. “There can be, and should be, a blissful, serene enjoyment in knowing – and celebrating – that there are folks out there having the time of their life at something that you might have loved, but are simply skipping.”
Dash wrote this in 2012 but, much like Black Coffee, JOMO took a while to hit the big time. “It came up a few years ago, but I don’t think we were ready then,” says Leanne Hall, clinical psychologist and author of Head First, Health Fast. “Now? We’re exhausted. We’ve got to challenge the irrational fear we feel that if we miss an event or don’t check our social media profile, then we’ll get left behind.”
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