For The Blank Page

So many people are becoming ever more enveloped with the forging of their own lives, primarily the materialistic aspect of it, with the that reason we continue to do this fading even more quickly into obscurity than ever before.  Constantly calculating and concerned with our career, earning money, saving money, spending money, the car we drive, the brand of clothes we wear, the size of the tv we watch and the impression we make due to this.  Every moment expended worrying about these things we are convinced we need is a moment and opportunity that is forever lost to us.

Sure we convince ourselves that we are connected to each other now more than ever.  We have a constant stream of status updates and random collections of corresponding photos and comments from facebook giving us the illusion of personal contact, when in fact it is more akin to a big brother type scenario.  Voice and video communication through cell phones and various internet based programs are helpful in allowing us to communicate with anyone whenever we wish to.  But there is a large difference in sharing a conversation and sharing an experience.  Put it this way, if you are fortunate enough to live into your 80?s then you wont be telling your grandchildren about those great conversations you had back in your day.

This should become obvious when we realise that this is our only form of contact, not only for people whom we are separated geographically but also for the friends and family that live in the same city.  These communication technologies obtain much of their success from the delusion of the real human relationships that we like to think that we are preserving.  As with the purpose of any self made delusion, this one provides us with piece of mind.  We require this peace of mind in order to fully pursue our goals of materialistic glory.  After all we are still living, breathing, feeling human beings and we still need these emotional connections. 

In pursuit of the things it is believed that we must possess we are all too willing to trade the very things that make us human to obtain them.  We believe that all the unique relationships we have forged in the past will be waiting, unchanged, for our return.  Unfortunately time will change anything and everything.

In saying this i do not mean that you should not work hard for what you want, only that you should consider why you are doing it.

I have no profound words to conclude with.

Hoping you have some for yourself instead???