Wake up!

Wake up! Day after day, we have all become more attached to technology. We focus our attention onto others, we shift our focus onto screens with apps that suck up our energy, constantly degrading ourselves by comparing ourselves to others and what they do, and lose our sense of self by never-ceasing distractions in the form of dopamine-inducing behavior.

We live our lives listening to others, to those that hold the highest amount of followers or views on social media, as though they are somehow gods for deciding what is right or wrong, and forget to sit with ourselves and think about what we ourselves believe. Perhaps it is a fear of sticking out, deviating from the norm, and looking foolish doing so that forces people to behave according to other people’s desires and expectations? Or perhaps just a perpetual loop of fear of missing out that leaves us with no time left to think for ourselves?

15-20 years ago, we didn’t have this incessant flow of dopamine and stimulation with high-end social media apps, high-end unstoppable amounts of content to consume, be it via videos, movies, games, all of which have successfully taken up more and more of our attention span by becoming more and more addictive.

People were happier, depression and anxiety was less prevalent, or at least seemingly so, and a likely causal factor is this overstimulation we subject ourselves to on an extremely frequent basis.

What are our lives really meant to be? Is this overstimulation and excessant overindulging of all types of entertainment, unhealthy food, and desocializing behavior really what all of us want, deep inside? Is a life where we just get by and make a decent living, then filled with never-ending distractions from our own underlying desires for more via watching TV, watching reels, watching porn, having sex, consuming, consuming, consuming, really what we want? Is this what we imagined that we would be when we were 5 years old, when the world seemed so exciting, so full of hope and potential, back when we still had dreams?

When was the last time you were able to just sit and be with yourself, and exist? When were you able to sit and be happy with just appreciating your surroundings, without needing to share a story or a picture with someone close to you or interacting with others on your phone, craving dopamine from the digital attention from, or digital interaction with, others?

As I asked you in my last post, who are you? Have you even given yourself enough mental space to be able to figure that shit out? Are you really sure that the path you are on is what you actually enjoy, or have you just accepted it as a path of least resistance, and used cheap dopamine as an escape to satisfy you temporarily, while deviating from the true path of why you were put on this earth?

Does life mean so little to you that you don’t think that you yourself along with your potential are worth exploring within the depths of your mind, along with what mark you will leave upon the beauty that is life before we depart from this place? I think we vastly underestimate our own potential, and that locking ourselves into perpetual stimulation loops is the root to our unhappiness (or at least as a way to perpetuate an underlying unhappiness).

I will repeat what I asked in my last post: who the fuck are you? And the next question for you now is: what are you going to leave behind when all of this ends?

Will be back soon with more… take care of yourselves.