When My Team Lead Gave Me FOMO (Samsung & SK Hynix)

Today my team lead treated us to lunch. His stocks had hit big.
It wasn’t that the FOMO landed on me right there, but as he kept going on about stocks and semiconductors this and that — my brain knew it was just noise, but my ears and my heart clearly didn’t agree, and I felt strangely unsettled.
After lunch, I sat in the bathroom scrolling X for an hour, and it looked like plenty of Tesla bulls had bailed because of exactly this kind of FOMO.
“Are you supposed to pretend it doesn’t get to you when you hear talk like this?”
“Things that felt so clear to me up through last month — is it normal that they start to look a little blurrier the moment I hear stories like these?”
“Nothing in my actual life has taken a real hit from any of this — so why am I being shaken?”
I even looked up a fortune-teller — 60,000 won a session… lol
Just yesterday I was taking comfort in what Kian and Sean had said, hit with that this is it feeling.
It’s at moments like this, more than ever, that I have to define the parts that are tangling me up, sort through the thoughts as they surface, and line up the things I can actually do.
This is exactly why metacognition and stepping outside yourself matter…! Just try. Start with what’s within reach.
My heart is plainly on a different page from my brain.