I think it takes a lot of mental capacity to contemplate the vastness of the universe and face our own relative meaningless to the bigger world out there!
It’s too painful to realize we mean so little in the grand scheme of things and because perception is reality we’ve created little self important mini realities to live in! We never look up from the world we created, a matrix of our own doing
Looking up is in itself an act of defiance in the current state we find ourselves in
This is a beautiful comment. Indeed it takes a lot of courage to get out of our default state. It is so easy to find escape in dealing with drama, with what to buy next, with who to hook up, what pictures to post on social media. It is so easy to follow the beaten path and never wonder what is outside. Never trying to create a different road. To explore. To question it all.
I often find myself wondering.... Time is so unpredictable. I find it funny when people plan for decades ahead, when they don't even know if they'll wake up breathing tomorrow. I connect this "fast food" type of reality with the fear of our own mortality. We use distractions, alcohol, smoking, partying, spending, overeating etc. just to deflect our attention from what really matters: our relationship with ourselves and our role in the Universe. Our spiritual journey.
I just won't and can't accept the average mentality of the majority: we are here to procreate, make babies, get a job, a house and pay our bills. We are here to make money and to buy stuff. We are here just to be. It is just not an acceptable way of living for me. I believe we need a higher purpose, something beyond ourselves. We should be more in tune with what is around us and stop seeing our Planet as a golden mine to exploit, use and abuse. I wonder how often people took a leaf in their hand and admired the beauty of it. A simple leaf.
Love it, it’s definately a “fast food” life if not a simulation of life and everyone has accepted it as fact when it’s not! We’ve lost touch with anything that is life and forsaken it for this consumer driven existence! I often say we are not even citizens we are consumers just here as collateral damage in a rigged game!
I think most people won’t break away in fact they’ll fight to protect it as you’d say they plan for decades!
If I look at how small people have made their worlds so they have “control” it actuallt shows how they’ve given up control for the sake of real control
Perception is reality and we all have the ability to shape our world but we choose not to because taking personal responsibility
Being just a consumer of goods, information, entertainment leaves the mind hungry. People should consume more "mental food". If that happens, then the need of control will dissipate and the focus will go inward
Indeed but the problem is choice, you can’t force someone to think and see the world like that! They have to choose and humans will always choose the path or least resistance!
The choice will always belong to the other
Choice means taking personal responsibility and that's something people fear
Responsibility is necessary