eyesonly said:
Do you ever notice just how much time and energy you spend worrying about what other people think about you? I've never thought of myself as overly "superficial" or whatever, and I tend to believe strongly that people should just "be themselves," but when I stop to notice my own thinking it just kind of amazes me how often I'm worrying about how other people might perceive something I say or do (or post online - haha!)
We worry about what people think about our clothes, our hair, our bodies, our faces, our speech, how much money we make, where we live, our cars, our jobs, just about everything you can imagine. I realize that human beings evolved as a social species and that we have strong instincts to try to be aware of how our social groups see us. But I just have a hard time feeling like the amount of worrying most of us do about how we're seen by others can actually be beneficial. In some ways I feel like this problem is getting worse in society.
Any thoughts?
My thought is that society, and it's been going on for a long time is the 'conditioning' of being 'part of the crowd'. To be accepted, just as they dress or have their hair, what music they lsiten what poltics or religion you follow etc.
You see this in 'celebrity worship today' but when you dig deeper, you see it as 'jsut a tool' to keep thinkin that 'this is all there is' the physical entity (body, outside appearence), the body that they are in. So they live in fear, indulin in the acceptance of the material world. But it isnt real, we must remmber we are much more than what the 'false world' made up of the controlled media etc tells us, which is tells us everyday 'vigourosly' that they must 'conform' to these ideals. sadly, alot of misguided people 'buy' into this philosophy creating masses of people who all look and dress as society and the system says. Yes, a goth, or someone may look different to a prep or jock , but its the same concept.
Its a dead end system when you see that it jsut creates division amongst us and fools people into thinkin 'they know all there is to know about style etc' and then they see someone who doesnt follow them, it gets thir mind thinking 'he or she isnt one of us, they are inferior' and they go into 'attack mode' with namecalling, labelling or dissaproving looks or a 'glare of disgust'
Its also a very difficult thin to break from. But its not impossible. We are here to be the best we can be, to evolve and explore who we truly are, as opposed to followin traps set by 'the system' which leads us into this sort of thinkin. To enslave us, and fill us of fear of eachother.
Imagine without this destructive system how much happy and tolerant we would be of eachother. Wed be in unity, accceptin with love and celebrating 'real diversity' with the purest of intentions.
I myself, have seen it for really is, the games and the tactics they play and use on us which plays us off agianst eachother.
It isnt jsut about 'physical appearence either. Its about behviour, the way you talk, religion, status and the poltics people are led to by the same destructive system. Leading to more judgement and people bein manipulated into bein a certain way. Yous ee it everday if you look around you. Look how smoking was once so popular in the 50s and 60s, yet 60 years later, its frowned upon with disgust.
Don't be fooled into believing 'everything' they say about smoking, in the next 20 or 30 years, youll be a 'phariah' for even sipping a beer or glass of wine. Even in moderation. It's how they operate. Big pharma is BIG lie! Look at how people hate on people who smoke now (you must be an evil person, you have a cigarette! there's no good in you!). Again, another example of people bein 'played agianst' eachother. One big chess set.
Once you break free from all these 'false ideals'a nd illusions the system creates, you are truly 'free' and you dont care about all these things that are nothin more than 'distractions' or 'illusions'
I hope this helps you on your journey. Be free.
In peace and love,
Chris