Open yourself to all that fills you
Buddhists will tell you that the root of all suffering is desire. We live in a “want” society and we are given to confuse emotional states with desire. What’s more, we get “influencers” on all sides telling us what we should want, what we need to need, and what we can’t live without. I almost…
Social media is not about connection or keeping in touch. It’s about displaying ones life and getting gratification from external validation. It’s about validating people you don’t know by idolizing the small snapshot of the part of their lives they choose to show. It’s about building a social brand more than anything else and that’s exhausting.
The voice of the people, i.e. the way that they effectively communicate ideas and share knowledge, is the cornerstone of humanity’s success as a species. We have no claws. We’re not particularly strong. We’re not especially fast. We have not defensive or offensive traits nor armament of any kind. In the grandness of the animal…