What Are You Avoiding? Reality
Embrace Your Responsibility
Welcome to the YouTopian Journey. Each week I will be sharing unique wisdom that can help you in the daily battles that we must all fight in the game of life. This week we discuss how we must stop avoiding reality and instead, embrace it.
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A FLIGHT FROM RESPONSIBILITY
“Flight from life does not exempt us from the law of age and death. The neurotic who tries to wriggle out of the necessity of living wins nothing and only burdens himself with a constant foretaste of aging and dying, which must appear especially cruel on account of the total emptiness and meaninglessness of his life.”-Carl Jung, Symbols of Transformation
There is a mass migration taking place right before our eyes. This is a migration not of the physical realm, but of the mental. It’s happening right now. Many can’t see it while others refuse to.
Lured by false prophets and social media gurus who promise health, wealth, and happiness, we easily fall prey to scams and schemes. Beckoned into a world of endless content, we become distracted. Pulled by distractions and drama, we become addicted to the trivial instead of following what is meaningful.
Understand that life is a battle. It always has been and always will be. We are assaulted on all sides, each and every day. Yet of all the obstacles we face, none seem more difficult, more indomitable, and more unsurmountable than reality.
Reality cannot be negotiated with. Its responsibilities cannot be mitigated, only avoided and ignored.
And it has never been easier to avoid, ignore, and flee from the responsibilities of reality.
After all, we can fake everything else.
We can fake our professional careers, claiming education we did not receive and experience from companies we never worked at. We can stretch the truth by claiming we had larger roles at companies than we actually did.
We can fake our personal lives. Our personas can be altered to fit an online avatar that looks nothing like us. Followers can be purchased. Likes and comments can be manufactured. With the entering of a credit card and a few key payments, an entire social media personality and expert can be created for the world to follow and experience.
We can fake our successes, parading them while at the same time, concealing our failures. We can turn our requirements into triumphs, giving us more credit than we truly deserve.
For everything else? We can simply avoid and ignore, plunging ourselves into a world of distractions.