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Humans, as a species, will never be happy. This is because we cannot live in the present. We always look ahead, plan for tomorrow, always setting reminders for this and that. We don’t see what is right in front of us because we constantly look past it. Or ahead of it. The present is nothing but a prescheduled event to us and we get upset if it doesn’t happen exactly the way we planned.
We are like brainwashed humanoids, always adhering to societal rules and propaganda. We are trained to conform through state funded schooling and all forms of media, especially social. The individual has been replaced by a monotonous, autonomic mass of like-minded people. We are afraid to take risks, to live a life based on the spontaneity of emotion and to feel the experiences they bring forth, without permission.
Everything, our needs, wants, and desires, are already in front of us. But it often arrives in forms we don’t expect and in unfamiliar situations. Whether you believe in divine orchestration, ancient mythologies, or the logic of simulation theory, the Universe will always want us to experience new, different and unusual things. However, the constraints of our conditioning keeps us blind to this. As a result, we keep searching for what has likely already found us, like a hamster running himself to death toward a finish line that doesn’t exist.
Therefore, we will always be lost. Clueless. Trying to grasp the tiny branch instead of just flowing with the current. Never realizing the current will take us where we need to go, opening into a world of experience. Stop grasping and take risks. Discover the person you really are. Each experience is for your exploration, to uncover emotions that have sunk to the dark depths of your soul.
I hope that I am able ride my own current. But I hope it’s more like a series of quick hitting tornadoes that I don’t have time to prepare for. They would throw me headfirst into new and fantastic experiences.
If I woke up in the morning and decided to do the things I actually wanted to do, I would be happy. But I cannot. I am stuck, like you, in this quicksand called society, appearing to hold us up while any attempt to escape only sinks us further.
Rules.
Jay Owens 