Let's continue that conversation...
As a marketing tool, do you realize that in no way, shape, or form do you benefit? In fact, you have become a live robot and they all know what buttons to push to make you work. As young people we are constantly bombarded with images and sounds that penetrate the depths of our minds and change our opinions without us even catching on. All they have to do is convince us that it either looks good or sounds good and that it's going to improve our standing with others and we're "in there like sin."
And, indeed, it is a sin. It's crazy that it took me this long to realize what kind of mess I was caught up in. For years I was stuck in this "party life". I don't think I ever really partied for any particular reason. In fact, I had no business being out there. I was, by all definitions, a screw up. I graduated from high school but I kept dropping out or getting kicked out of college. Why? Because I couldn't get myself to focus on the future hard enough to understand that what I was partaking in was a temporary pleasure that would only take me further away from positivity. Why do I say that? Well, for one, being in that scene is all about "the moment." It's not about the past or the future. It's just about...a moment. And when it's all said and done, I look back and all I see are...moments. I don't have any period of time where there was consistency or longevity. Just moments. How could I expect anything good to happen within...a moment?! Real change takes time. It certainly takes longer than the time it used to take me to get trashed! Yet, the world tells us that it's okay to only focus on moments. The world tells us it's okay to "live in the moment" and act on instinct. When did acting on your unfocused instinct ever land you in a positive situation?
This lifestyle that the world accepts and promotes is all about them making a dollar off of you. And by "them", I mean business owners of multi-million dollar companies that don't give a damn about your welfare and happiness. They make up the definition of happiness and sell it to you in a bottle of Ciroc or whatever new and hot drink Fabolous, Luda, or Weezy shouts out! I'm not judging because, like I said, I did it. I've been there and done that. But the further I move from that old life, my eyes are opened to the ways of this world that are truly disheartening. At times I get really angry and upset about how this world has tainted so many things and taken away our ability to be unique. There's so many things that block us but we can't see because we're walking through the thick of the fog!
And at the end of that fog, will we be happy with who we see? Do you think God would be pleased knowing that we got caught up in other people's definition of what it means to be happy and accepted? Probably not. My stepmom always says, "God is not the author of confusion." And I truly believe that the enemy has blinded many of us at one time or another because we live in a world where there are too many options to please yourself. You can go to this club, or that club. You can get drunk off this or that. You can sleep with this person or that person. "Pick your poison," they say. And it will all kill you, yet we have all used these killers to please ourselves...
My question is, who decided these things were okay? And when did everyone start to follow suit?
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