It's quite a scary thing being alive.
I think a lot of us are more scared of living than even death itself. This may sound absurd at first when we first reflect on it, but when you really think about it, there's some truth to that statement. We never truly know what will happen in the future, nor do we even know how much time we have left.
So we go about day by day, never truly appreciating life for what it is, allowing the days to go by like some chore. I am guilty of this too, and immensely so as of late.
Having met so many people, and seen so many stories everywhere, it is evident that society itself is forgetting how to live. We're all searching for the tiniest bit of happiness in our lives, but I think so many of us search in all the wrong places.
It doesn't take a psychology course for you to know that something is wrong with us. We're no longer comfortable being who we are. We desperately strive to be thin, to be rich, to be cool, to be everything that the world tells us we should be because we want to be happy. We run ourselves to the ground, trying to find that significant other we think will make us complete.
But that doesn't make sense. We're not made as half a person. No thing, and no one can make you complete. We already have everything we need, but we choose to put it all aside, like toys we're bored of, and we go in search for the very things that obscure exactly what we want.
I guess... the purpose of this is two-fold. To admit that sometimes, more often than I'd like, I'm scared too.
More importantly to ask: are we really living life the way it was meant to be lived.
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