I once heard it said that dreaming is
more enjoyable/satisfying than doing because once you remove the fantasy,
reality kicks in. And reality is not quite as polished. Well, you
know what? I'm OK with unpolished. Dreams can only take you so far.
And while dreaming is certainly a pleasant pastime, doing is the
stuff dreams are made of for me.
Huh?
I guess what I'm saying here is that
I'm tired of sitting around waiting for someone to wave a magic wand
over this mirage of an existence that modern society has us pandering
to. Pretty darn tired of watching loved ones waste their life away on
the non-existent American dream. (Let's face it, the only place that
ever happened was in our heads anyway.)
I'm sick of hearing how people miss the
good old days when things were like Mary
Poppins, practically perfect in every way. Because they never
have been.
We glamorize the past when we
reminisce. We leave out the negative aspects of living “back in the
day” because they're unpleasant to think about. And so, we go
around with this jaded view of past decades that makes us long for
“the good old days” we have conveniently placed in the forefront
of our childhood memories.
And let's face it, part of the reason
we fantasize about the good old days is because we are now adults,
dealing with adult issues, which is something we didn't have to face
as a child.
However....
We all know that there is something to
be said about the simplicity of the past. You know, life in the times
before everyone became so involved with their gadgets and devices.
The times when we actually talked to each other, face to face, all
the time, because that's all there was.
Ya, I do miss that. It did
exist.
Good thing I figured out how I can
bring it back.
Yup. Because, as it turns out, the
disappearance of simplicity in my life was my own darn fault. I had
my face in my phone and computer just as much as everyone around me
did.
No one took the good old days from me.
I took them from myself when I stopped living in a way that brought
me peace. My disdain for the modern world was blinding me to the fact
that I was becoming an integral part of it. That was the real
problem.
So now, rather than preaching to
everyone else about their detached behavior and lifestyles,
I'm working on my own.
Now, you may miss something else
entirely, about the days before technology, but I miss things like
playing cards and games, doing jigsaw puzzles, creating not so great
(sometimes totally crappy) works of art and making things for my
home. Those things never made me especially rich or famous. But they
did make me happy. So, as a part of my peace path, I've gone mostly
off social media so I can have the time to pursue them daily again,
rather than just on rare occasions.
And you know what? It's contagious,
this actual, RL (not virtual) face
time instead of Facebook thing, that is. Today, my oldest
grand-daughter and I are going to refinish some old beat up furniture
together. We're going to live our own lives instead of watching other
people's lives on television or social media. And what's more? We're
excited about it. Really excited.
I hope it's the start of many more
peaceful pursuits in the real life zone for us. I hope we have so
much fun that we inspire the people around us to do the same on a
regular basis. Because, folks, as I am learning more and more, we
can't change the whole world overnight. But we can certainly change
our own little piece of it.
So... Dream or do? What is my move?
I move to make my dreams of a simpler,
non-virtual existence a reality and ignore the social pressure to
Stepford wife my way through life like a zombified, insane,
brainwashed, “good” citizen. After all, no one's going to do it
for me. And if I sit around waiting for society to change before I
change? Well, you've seen those skeleton memes, right? I have no
desire to become a skeleton while waiting for anything.
Ain't nobody got time for that and I
have less time than most!
Dreaming of a different kind of life?
I highly recommend you do something you love, that brings you closer
to your dream every day, my friends. Who do you want to be? How do
you want to live? Be that. Do that.
Now!
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