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Delusion allows happiness.True understanding about yourself and your life hand in hand with the understanding of those around you and the reality of the world makes it impossible to live in the culturally deemed and idolized sense of happiness.
"Aren't you an actor?"
"Aren't we all my dear...?"
Find one minute of your day when you are not playing a part.
be it for the people around you, their opinions, their judgments, their acceptance and approval
or be it for your own opinion of who it is you think you want to be.
How often are we actually true to ourselves?
"What do you like...... honestly...what do YOU like..."
If you were alone on a deserted island...nobody around, would you actually live for yourself? Or would you still be obsessing (remember nobody is around) with making sure when you get off the island you'll still be someone people are impressed with?
Did you build that raft just to survive... or so that you could show the world how resourceful you are? A little of both?
Survive you say? JUST to survive?
The thought of who might recognize this as a great accomplishment never ran through your head? "Oh I wish _______ could see this."
I know I would have thought that....hell i would have ridden that damn raft right to their front door if it meant they'd acknowledge it.
WHY DO WE DO THIS??
Why do we live endlessly to impress others?
Why have we lost ourselves to the societal expectations we place on each other?
We're all to blame. And we're all lemmings.
We would follow each other off of a cliff if it meant approval.
Don't lie to yourself and say you're enlightened. Not many are.
We are naively happy and trapped in the delusion that this act is what makes life worth living.
WHO ARE YOU?
WHAT DO YOU LIKE?
WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM LIFE?
If you can answer that without acting....good for you.
You're leaps and bounds ahead of the world.
