People will chase notoriety for whatever reason. We now call prostitution sex work and miserable, disenfranchised women will get rich (not wealthy) and lonely in tasteless mansions. It’s really bleak when you look at it.
It’s so very, very easy to get whipped up into a frenzy, desperately seeking the validation and pushing anything to get attention. All the social medias are designed that way.
I am inspired for this post by a really lovely comment I received on a recent YouTube Short. I’m quoting below,
“I really felt this one. The constant rush, the endless craving for control or status, the need to always be on the winning side – it’s exhausting. Your words are a much-needed reminder to slow down and step outside that race. Thank you for putting it so clearly.”
Everyone is feeling this, whether consciously or subliminally. There is a vast pointlessness (and meaninglessness) to people’s behaviour that they’re aware of but don’t know how to stop. The need to engage in the drama is incredibly tempting. It feels immediate and exciting and it satisfies the dangerous ‘need to be right’.
Out of that need to be right, people will desperately cram every ounce of ‘data/info/detail’ into their world to try and ‘make it fit’. Of course, it’s a fool’s errand because if you look at what you’re receiving for even a few minutes, you’ll realise most of it is completely bollocks and often contradictory.
I don’t think this is new but the craziness is reaching its zenith.
We have become so psychotically obsessed with being right and getting things right that we’re eliminating entire food groups from our diets because we believe we’re allergic or intolerant or sensitive to things we’ve been eating.
Where is the information coming from? Why are such prominent figures pushing this bullshit? Do you even know the source? Have you asked the question?
Why shouldn’t I eat cake?
What’s wrong with enjoying steak?
PAUSE.
When you learn to drive, one of the first lessons is “Stop. Look. Listen.”
Are you using your senses?
Are you believing things just because you think you should?
Are you living your life for the approval of people who don’t even know you exist?
Seriously.
Do Not Let Yourself Be Controlled.
Do nothing because you think it is good for you.
Do things that you feel are beneficial to you and chart and the results as you go.
I didn’t use the word psychotically earlier for nothing. I believe we have become so detached from our true natures that when we eat certain things, which have been so heavily demonised for so long that we have psychosomatic (which if you break down the word means mental-body) reactions that we bring on ourselves. I am convinced.
“But it’s different wheat. They hybridise it now.” Oh? Do they? That’s nice. Doesn’t stop it from being delicious. Doesn’t mean it is inherently bad.
Never underestimate the power of your mind.
We need to get back into our bodies. We need to start experiencing joy again. We need to learn to relax.
Seriously, start.