If you have updated your Instagram home in the last few minutes, you will have seen that everyone is having fun (except from you).

Yet you’re there, in front of your smartphone, missing out on cool opportunities. Holiday pictures, invitations for events, geotags in places where you have always wanted to go. There is endless news for you to browse and many emotions you can feel, but do not worry: you are not alone. Many people feel the FOMO (acronym for the English expression Fear of missing out), the fear of being cut off from everything and of not living up to others’ lives.

For us at UNICEF NextGen Italia, FOMO, after all, is a provocation. It represents the contrast between those who live striving to achieve an impossible perfection and those who try to rebuild a balance around themselves, maybe even unstable, enjoying the present and facing their fears to turn them into opportunities and build their future.

FOMO is also a photo-issue that, through its images, tells the stories of children and adolescents supported by UNICEF’s programs.