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WE HAVE GOT TO FIGURE SOMETHING OUT.


Like moths to a flame😍we sit and stare at our screen, while things begin to stir and spring begins its green. We are mesmerized by lights and videos of things that do not otherwise educate but simply entertain. We and I say we because we were the first generation to test the video games, to start the AIM chat rooms and first to hear America Online’s God awful sound of dial up. We were the first to hear about the radiation that came from the computer and from all our new cell phones. We were the last to stay up until dark on our own, riding bikes to our friends houses, making prank phone calls, and taking a real adventure without Google maps in our pocket. Trying desperately to connect to a world that seemed so far away, blank and untapped, full of all this possibility. There has been a shift in possibility perspective.  We now look at everything as a way to make money, to market ourselves, or to be heard on a scale that no one has truly seen before. There is too much grey area for mistakes. Power and wealth are being sought after like it’s the Roman Empire, being chased down like it’s an obtainable goal. What happend to just having a dream? What happend to the idea that having enough to just be content is enough to be happy? I remember thinking about my life and just wanting to play basketball professionally. Maybe having a boat, not to showcase my wealth, but to take my dad fishing, maybe fall asleep on a gorgeous day, or even get caught in a storm just for a good story. We don’t need what we are after. We are literally spinning our wheels. We are working for people and corporations that do not seem to care about us as are whole, but constantly looking at the bottom lines. We have become a society of mathematical values and statistics. There is not much of a heart beat.

So, let’s take a beat.

mmonroe11

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4 responses to “CELLphones”

  1. iqiyou Avatar
    iqiyou

    Interesting perception. You’re not the only one complaining in this way either.

    I’m not sure I agree entirely with the notion that “we don’t need what we are after,” though I understand the sentiment, and love the phrasing. That statement is itself ancient and a part of the esoteric arguments of spiritualists that date back 6,000 years — so there’s validity there. I just think that its dangerous to say or think that we don’t need something, when we still don’t understand why we’re seeking it.

    To qualify that danger, I suspect that a combination of things is happening that leaves us feeling a kind of constant fear. First, our classic cultures were built on communities, and although it can be argued that those communities could be horribly restraining toward outliers, they did give body of “normals” a great deal of structure, support, and safety. In largely urban areas the sense of community dissipates, and while it affords the benefit of less oppression of outliers, the trade-off may be that everyone is more universally lost, alone and feeling unsafe. That lack of safety isn’t just smoke, either. A burgeoning corporate noosphere is reaching out with ever-increasing precision and effectiveness for our attention, and is consciously conveying the notion that we must reach out, do, buy, and consume what they are selling. Even journalists want to command your attention and convince you of something. If there is no balancing influence — something near, tangible, and loving enough to offset the scope of the other messages — that reassures us that we’re okay the way we are, then we are truly and really dying; being sucked dry of vitality merely be hearing those messages. Such is the nature of the Mind / Body connection. We believe it, if we hear it often enough.

    So, if we feel ourselves to be in danger, either because we’re told to, or because we realize we are always being grabbed after, then our sense of need is real. It isn’t necessarily helpful to say “stop searching,” “stop looking,” “stop trying to find something new.”

    In what you wrote, you seemed to make very real and vivid the draw to “the flame.” I would love to hear more from that last sentence: “So, let’s take a beat.” Yes, but what does that mean? If I stop looking at my phone, then all I find at first it the panic. What do I do with that? What does taking a beat feel like? Where is the comfort?

    Perhaps, its in your statement about staying up late alone, riding a bike, making crank calls, taking a mapless adventure. In my own life, those things had there own manic quality; as though I couldn’t derive peace, fulfillment, or renewal from just sitting still, or getting some much needed sleep.

    If you took a moment of your own, what was that like for you? What reassures you?

    Thanks for posting.

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  2. Shay Avatar
    Shay

    …’my wings burn away
    when things are too beautiful, i smash them to pieces
    the more that you love me insecurity releases
    and i’ll be the one that’s to blame
    so i’ll sell my soul to blaze.’

    Good words with Quite an intro. Speaking of basketball, what’s the harm in capitalizing on something you not only love, but are naturally gifted at?
    Dreams are life & progress is happiness 💚

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    1. mmonroe11 Avatar
      mmonroe11

      no harm at all I believe.

      Thanks for your words too.
      beautiful.

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      1. Shay Avatar
        Shay

        Not my words, just a fave 😉
        http://www.metrolyrics.com/moth-lyrics-hell-yeah.html

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