It is not dead.
Effort is not dead.
Excellence is not dead.
Perseverance is not dead.
Dedication, precision and finesse are not dead.
The fringes of society that reject these principles — are dead, to me. Life is full. It is beginning. It is the season of speed and money. And yet none of this will dawn on you and bless you unless you are walking on the path of this salvation.
There is a certain pace to modern life, so filled with apathy, indifference, and laziness. It has almost become a movement. Flowing like dead fish in a current, establishing itself as the norm. You look around you only to find irrelevant advertisements and overdone marketing. People do not know what they sell, who they sell to, nor are they aware of what they consume. Most walk through the throes with earphones on, comatising themselves with the delusions of hedonistic grandeur, an escapism from the humility, purpose, and intrinsic restlessness of the soul. The yearning for the completion of a mission.
The structures the modern world has built for the average person are a living hell. Families are forced together, imprisoned by the idea of homogeneity at the cost of everything that makes meaning worth pursuing and living well. Spaces caged, lacking beauty, vitality, and any nourishment for the body. Heightened inflation in experiences, escapes. Everything and everyone has become a product or service. There is no running away from consumption —consumption consumes you. Until you no longer know who you are or what you like outside the concepts of trends, preferences, biases, and people-pleasing coping mechanisms. Everyone jumps from one moat to the other, to earn, to seek, to grasp— to hold onto what looks like a saving light only to be puppeted around in this grand scheme of impatience and weariness of the heart. A fundamental lack of trust in the connection of the being to a higher self. A sickness of the soul.
You can reject this and you can start small.
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