After yesterday’s post about the iPad, a reality dawned on me; the human race is sold out. I wonder how much we have forgotten that in the recent million years, all we strive for was: food, water and clothing; everything else was detrimental to our survival–forget those we are advanced now, we are grown, we are civilized.
And civilization has brought us all these luxury (like the iPad) and some mental slavery; everyday we are continually becoming like someone else; we are continually being shaped by what “others” think is right, no one is believing in themselves anymore, we have all turned to the TV, Magazine, social media for validation of our identities. I’m not in doubt about the role all these play in our becoming a social being; but at some point, we come to a point of self-discovery. A point where we sit down with our self and ask serious questions like: “what is my purpose in life?” “what marks I’m I living on my cohabitants?”
I’ve once argued that life has no purpose, we humans just have an illusion of purpose (blame our big brains) for me, instead of being absorbed with this illusion, I thought I’d live in the present, and walk life as it unfolds.
Recently I told a friend about living in the now and he took it verbatim and asked: “why do you go to school then or plan for your future, why not just hang out all day?” I responded by asking that though he has the availability of several means of ending his life, would he? Me going to school does not guarantee my success in life [the illusion], I just try to increase its chances and [hopefully] make the illusion a reality.
An alternative take: my friends are what I have now, my family is what I have now, I am what I have now, how much I’m I appreciating, and using what I have now comparable to the future.
And that’s the more reason we would continue to be sold out, we are thinking and acting in the illusion forgoing what it is that we have now.
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