Eliminate The Superficial – Focus On The Essential

' Society has become so fake that the truth actually bothers people.'

Did you catch the "buy things we don't need, with money we don't have, to impress people we don't like " syndrome? If you posses enough self-awareness to admit to yourself that you did, you may want to take a moment to reevaluate your focus/priorities in life.

It’s easy to get caught up in the day to day grind, and forget about why we do the trillion things we do on a daily basis. When absent mindedness becomes a way of life, collective unconsciousness becomes the norm. We walk around pretending to ourselves and the world around us that we know why we do what we do, but the truth may be that we do stuff for reasons that are inauthentic to begin with.

We get lured into the charms of advertisement, pretty social media curated pictures, and other hypnotizing nonsense that pushes onto us the metrics of the "good life ". Magic thinking can convince many that attaining success with a capital S will suddenly make one’s life everything they could have ever hoped for. Isn’t the winner of a rat race still a rat after all? Fuck this picket fence bs, the American dream is nothing but a fair shot at deluding us once again!

We’ve traded the quest of enlightenment for the one of entertainment, mistakenly thinking that external fleeting pleasures make for a good life. Lucky us that our plastic custom surface conversations are starting to match the fake lifestyles we desperately try to maintain. My house is bigger than your house. My job is fancier than your job. My status is higher than your status. Is your lack of self- awareness as big as the number sitting inside your bank account ?

Essential comes from the Latin root essentia, meaning" being, essence". Isn’t curious that we spend the majority of our time, if not its entirety, in a state of doing, rather than in a state of being? Focusing on the essential means getting back in touch with ourselves, to look inward instead of looking outward. The essence of life is to find our true and authentic nature, and once we have found it, to forever be in harmony with it and share its preciousness to the world outside of us.