Consumerism
Have u ever felt like that u have been only consuming recently or like always ? Dont u think that we as a humanbeings, more than often
tend to suffice?We lead monotonous life , work, eat, sleep and wake up . Occasionally we will do something different, but that different
thing is more likely to be somewhat a bit different version of those monotonous activities, like instead of eating at home, we wd dine
in a restaurant or watch a movie,go to club which are kinda another version of consumption. We are lazy, lazy to work , lazy to think.
May be technology justifies that tho,why wd we bother to think or work when technology can do that for us?!. Endless loop of
consumption and we are not even aware of it. Did u ever wonder why do most of us feel empty inside? Most people believe that they
can fill that emptiness up with love, religion or some other stuff. However more than often, they fail to do so and it leads to hatred.
And people who once fill themselves with hatred, more often unleash it to those who endeared them mostly. Pretty fucked up right ?
Another endless loop ? Extension ? But who cares right ? Well i do and hope u do as well since u bothered to read this whole paragraph.
Breaking Out
But only being aware of the problem is half solution. So how do we actually break out of the loop ? I dont think that u can entirely
break out of the loop, its more like being in and out of the loop. Since we as a human beings are social creatures, we depend on each
other, especially when we already have some basic systems pre set, before most of us were born. It may wary in micro (national,local)
systems, but in macro its all the same. Is it bad or good that we have predefined macro systems that we didnt vote or had anything to
do but our ancestors decided for us .Ofc its mainly good, but expecting or thinking that its perfect wd be too naive of u. It provides
most of us some path that we can follow , provides us security, shelter etc. One can argue tho, that security doesnt necessarily mean
good since in a recent research it was discovered that our ancestors were smarter (brain had bigger grey matter) just because they
werent safe. Their mind was always in a cautious mode cause of possible threats, they always had to act smart and choose best
possible decision because one mistake could lead u to death. But then again wd u rather be smart and live everyday as if it might
be ur last one? Or be less smarter and live longer life ? Yup i wd go with latter as well, u can even argue that they are safer methods
for getting smarter as long as u r alive, right ? Exactly, my point is that we need to be aware of this, the fact that we chose security over
intelligence, just because as long as we r alive, we can find another safer route for getting smarter. Why choose only security or
intelligence when u can get both?! But most of us never really have healthy habits that contribute to individuals intelligence. Most of us
dont exercise or read, mb occasionally we read or memorized some passages from books in order to pass exam and forgot about them as
soon as we passed it.
So in summary, break ur daily routine as much as u can but dont forget that u r partially dependant on that routines. Getting out of
the loop completely poses another danger, that is for another post tho. Try to exercise daily, even if its for just 5 mins.Try to read, dont
underestimate 10 pages of books that u read daily. Or write , paint, anything is better than blank canvas even if no one understands ur
painting,yet. As Bukowski said, “Its not much light, but it beats darkness..”. Dont get lost in a consumption loop, try to contirbute and
u ll soon realise that the hole that love, money or any other trivial stuff cdnt fill, is filled.
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