More than ever, our lives today are molded by forces outside of ourselves. We work to schedules created by other people (our bosses), live in housing estates designed by other people (developers), and buy things that other people tell us we should be buying (influencers.) This sees us all living in a ‘standard-brand’, ‘robotised’ society, a society that dulls the senses and numbs the mind.
Such standardisation and ‘robotisation’ of the whole of our society benefits the minority (the rich, upper-class ‘rule makers’), at the expense of the majority (communities all over the world.) It is the former (the ‘rule makers’ of society), that control the latter (that being; everybody else.) How do they do this? Well, they know exactly what it is that the young will buy because they are the ones who have created their needs, with them doing so for the sole purpose of controlling the entirety of the human race, from womb (the moment of birth), to tomb (the moment of death)…
Despite one small group of people undoubtedly being in control of the masses, with this being seen both overtly, in the form of TV adverts that inform us of what we are lacking in, (and what we need to buy to account for our lack thereof), and also covertly, via the subconscious messaging that we are fed in schools, whereby we are taught that, to be ‘successful’ means to climb the ladder of social class, we should all be actively challenging such a toxic society, by questioning its rigidities and refusing its norms…
To achieve the above (i.e., to question the ‘rigidities‘ imposed on us by our society and subsequently refuse the ‘norms’), we should all make it our mission in life to become the people whom we were, quite literally, born to be.
‘There is something in life that all of us are meant to do. and someday the moment will come when, if we are true to ourselves, we will do it.’- Joan Chittister, author of ‘Two dogs and a parrot.’
Furthermore, we should also strive to remain optimistic that we are here, alive on this earth, for something that is far greater than ourselves (with this ‘something’ being the very meaning of life)…
To find our ‘reason’ then, something acknowledged as being our ‘life mission’, we must focus on looking inwards.
Doing this (looking inwards) will, in turn, allow us to determine what it is that ‘lights us up’ inside.
Failing to follow whatever it is that lights us up inside, whether that light was switched on in our childhood, or whether the light was newly fitted in our adulthood, means to die without ever having fully lived…
Now, to me, that (dying without ever having realised my potential) is a far scarier prospect than the prospect of taking a risk that doesn’t completely go to plan. And so, I refuse to live my life ‘holding myself back’ out of a fear that I will make a mistake. The truth is, that I would much prefer to leave this earth knowing that I have tried, and failed, then knowing that I haven’t bothered trying at all.
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