The primitive people were so much
smarter! Unlike us, they knew that life was not about ego toping survival.
Sure, there were the “Alfa males” and the “mother figures” of the tribe… But if
there ever was a danger, the tribe was united as one; survival came first.
Unity meant surviving. The animal instinct of self preservation and growth of
your own species trumped everything.
In contrast, today is more and more
about independence; making it on your own. Getting help from others, making it
“together”, or showing that you do have weaknesses… means basically giving
everyone else a free pass to “devouring” you. We sham our own nations and adopt
others; we reject our own history, or even worse, show absolutely no interest
in it… We turn the “we” into “I” and, governed by the fear of failing, we
safeguard ourselves to the point of loneliness. We lost the meaning of success
in life. They say “it’s lonely at the top”; well, it makes sense it would be.
When you use your friends as stepping stones and keep moving “up” fully knowing
that you need to leave all that means something to you behind in order to “move
on” and “move forward”, you get to that point of no return were you do achieve
everything you dreamed of. You can do anything; you have done everything. But
you take a step back and then hit that MOMENT. That one moment when you realize
that none of it matters. It’s all fake. You are actually alone and
misunderstood by all those who are so sure they “get you”. You truly are…“independent”;
suspended above all and nothing, everyone and everything. Without a family, or
unity, or love…there’s nothing. A lonely life is an equation that makes no
sense and has no purpose. Independence is only good in moderate doses; as is
ego; as is creative madness.
The idea of “family”, of working
TOGETHER towards a common goal, seems gone today. The unity is broken for the
sake of individuality. The ego trumps the survival instinct. We lost our
meaning; our fight for something meaningful. Sometimes, life is meant to be
simple; simple joys, simple and random acts of kindness towards someone you
barely know… Sometimes life should not be a struggle. And that is the main
difference between happy and miserable. No wonder every other person needs a
shrink. We went from grooming or growing up with a friend to paying someone to
listen to us and pretend to be our friend for an hour every other week. That is
the problem right there! Today we have everything, except … we forgot about
friendship and unity and holding on through better or worse.
The primitive people were so much
smarter! They instinctively knew that life was meant to be simple; life was
meant to be lived.
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