I Like Philosophy
Our world prioritises and rewards people's ability to conform and to fit in, to maintain the expected narrative of culture; go to school, get a job, watch T.V., pay your taxes, keep yourself distracted, don't ask questions. The luxury (or appeal) of such a system is that those who unquestioningly adopt it - the vast majority of people on this planet - get everything this world has to offer, so long as they remember to follow the aforementioned rules. You learn to become a more efficient machine at the price of ever finding out who or what you actually are, or what life is really and actually about. These things are apparently worthless in a world of alarm clocks and taxes. They don't "do" anything, nor can you physically see or touch them. And so... these questions are left completely unexplored by the general population.
As was once said, some people truly do gain the world for the price of their soul. Who has the time or even the curiosity to introspect these days, when it's easier and more simpler for people to just brush it aside and go about their day. We've relegated the search for personal truth into the realms of the unimportant, and in so doing, nobody wants to take it upon themselves to ask questions. Everyone is locked into survival consciousness; the "do this to get that" mentality which throws a reward at you for playing along.
Those rare few who decide to break away from the pack and go alone, seeing the folly of the world for what it is, will never taste nor experience the lavish luxuries of conformity. But what they will experience is the development and freedom of their own being. They will take themselves deeper and deeper into those unexplored realms within and will invariably ask the two more important and fundamental questions along any kind of journey or search; "who am I?", "what am I?" Those questions aren't just important - they set you free.
If you don't bother to seek, you're guaranteed to never find. That's just how it works. Nothing is going to magically fall in your lap and present itself to you unless you get the ball rolling yourself. You won't find the truth in any one place, person, belief, or idea. It's a little bit of everything, in fact. But in the end, everything leads back to you. I'm sure this post will soon get swallowed up and lost among all the mindless, meaningless stuff most people post on here. Oh well. I'll remain true to myself regardless, and I'll continue to post here for as long as needed.
[06/06/16]
As was once said, some people truly do gain the world for the price of their soul. Who has the time or even the curiosity to introspect these days, when it's easier and more simpler for people to just brush it aside and go about their day. We've relegated the search for personal truth into the realms of the unimportant, and in so doing, nobody wants to take it upon themselves to ask questions. Everyone is locked into survival consciousness; the "do this to get that" mentality which throws a reward at you for playing along.
Those rare few who decide to break away from the pack and go alone, seeing the folly of the world for what it is, will never taste nor experience the lavish luxuries of conformity. But what they will experience is the development and freedom of their own being. They will take themselves deeper and deeper into those unexplored realms within and will invariably ask the two more important and fundamental questions along any kind of journey or search; "who am I?", "what am I?" Those questions aren't just important - they set you free.
If you don't bother to seek, you're guaranteed to never find. That's just how it works. Nothing is going to magically fall in your lap and present itself to you unless you get the ball rolling yourself. You won't find the truth in any one place, person, belief, or idea. It's a little bit of everything, in fact. But in the end, everything leads back to you. I'm sure this post will soon get swallowed up and lost among all the mindless, meaningless stuff most people post on here. Oh well. I'll remain true to myself regardless, and I'll continue to post here for as long as needed.
[06/06/16]
26-30, M
