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Reflected in the indignant glance of irreverent fervor and calculated by the extremities of malice aforethought, I beseech the beaten trail for the course, that once led our people. Where has this road, so commonly accepted, taken us?
Into lands of incredible wonder with our awe-inspired, childlike eyes cast over the horizon, made drunk by the stories of possibility. The jovial fantasies of riches, beauty, and wealth. You can have it all!
But do we really want it? A question we perhaps never thought to ask.
I’m beginning to feel my world tilt on its axis into a space of the unknown. The simpler world that once was is now lost.
Is this benevolent gift of the information age truly healthy for our slow-to-evolve human brains?
Are we on some temporal slingshot sending us away into the cosmos of our mentality as we forget our bodies in the wake, drowned by the heavy burden of human experience? So much to run from and yet, I know not where I run. I only grow tired.
At this point in the journey, the distant cries that tantalized my mind so subtly have grown into a violent scream. The kind that our nervous systems recognize as terror immediately, discerned from those of joy, playfulness, or even fright—the kind of scream that causes our blood to run cold. Life or Death.
As I spiral forward into the lustrous halls of bright lights, I find myself all the more lost. The crowd grows and yet lulls into a deep trance of avoidance relinquished only to the violent outcries that narrowly slip through the layers of mindlessness and are carelessly and immaturely set upon another’s character, in the face of a differing viewpoint.
This underbelly of anger is a direct result of the chaos that no one of us has the capacity to keep up with and when we try we simply burn-off hours, days, weeks, even years of our lives. Time speeds up, and we are dragged along for the awful ride.
How strongly my body longs for the simplicity—for the clarity and the dignity that feels so lost in our culture.
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