The worst lie is never told to others. It is to one’s self. It is an invitation for your mind to create whatever illusion it should be so inclined to produce, benevolent or malevolent. A healthy and relatively successful life depends on a firm grasp of one’s own sense of reality. Allowing others to skew that self-truth can have vicious repercussions because this game is played for keeps. It is a difficult thing to realize how one may allow one’s self to be guided by others and there is a distinct the difference between one who follows and a slave. To stand behind another individual and allow that person to lead you is a conscious decision for a perceived improvement. A slave has no choice whatsoever regardless of the tangibility of the chains.
How do people become unhappy? At what point does a person slide into the pool already full with flailing bodies aimlessly drifting around each other in a mundane, synchronized dance? I don’t get it. I mean, I understand why it happens. I just don’t understand how people let it happen to themselves. We leave high school with such optimism, full of ideas and possibility. Somewhere along the line, a single version of reality is subtly inserted within the cerebellum like a sentient parasite, pushing and prodding us along with pre-packaged mantras we identify as inspiration.
Why is mediocrity on a pedestal? Why are we content with middle suburbia? So many people aspire for an adaptation of reality already wrapped up with a pretty little bow tie like a certified used Lexus commercial. Replete with void from lack of stimuli. No child left behind so that everyone can feel special. Well, it doesn’t work that way. It is not a sustainable psychology and we will soon have a violently implosive event that can, with ease, bring everything we know crumbling around us like a bad mid-90s post apocalyptic flick.
The collective is a powerful thing and we have been lying to ourselves on a collectively unconscious level. Lather, rinse, and repeat the lies that allow us to continue to pretend that life is not a dismal view on a desert landscape. Fiction and nonfiction alike are full of warnings of where this mass delusion will lead us. Be an individual pivotal to your community and hopefully we can stave off this Idiocracy.