Daily, I am reminded of just how far our world and the richness of culture has fallen. We are surrounded by advertisements that promote inadequacy, where it’s sole purpose is to drive people towards greed and materialism. You can’t turn on the television without some sort of brain-numbing filth consuming you. Humankind as a whole has become domesticated and has lost sight of most of the natural instincts that once defined our race. Things like the drive for discovery and exploration have been lost, as well as the quest for honor and the respect of morals was apparently been thrown out of the window ages ago.
What happened to the heroes of our world? The people that the world used to look up to and to take inspiration from have been transformed to complete rubbish. I mean, what the hell is wrong with this world (particularly the Western societies)? The people who used to be famous and were looked to as truly-great were the scholars, artists, writers, explorers and the true-thinkers. But to my great embarrassment (and it should be yours as well), the people who are influencing the world, the famous and the rich are mostly pieces of shit. As I’ve said before, we should not be idolizing orange-tinted drunk-whores from New Jersey - the same can be said about bowl-topped teen-sensations and the obese and pregnant adolescents. You can tell that the world is pretty damned worthless when pretty much the only news is which slutty-celebrity cheated on their husband, and now their having a kid with the new guy... blah blah blah. Or even worse is when the news is giving fame to a mass-murderer, who’s incidentally influencing other nobodies to commit the same horrible crimes.
When I take a look around the world, I am violently sick to my stomach. To be honest, escaping the world’s path of self-destruction is part of the reason I travel. I want to dig deep and find the last remnants of the world’s culture, before it’s all diseased and gone. Then, I want to escape to the furthest, most remote place on this earth - just to spare myself from the shame and the influence of what humankind has turned our precious planet into.
When you look at the ‘big picture’ in life, (that many only slow down enough to see once upon their deathbed) you will realize that the ONLY things that are important in life are those you love, the experiences you shared with them, those you’ve had it in your heart to help and potentially the growth of self-discovery. I urge you, NO... I PLEAD YOU to see reason, to quit wasting your time and happiness on the faux shackles keeping you from living your life the way you want to live it. Life is SO DAMN SHORT - for F#%K sake, just do what makes you happy!
Do you want to lead a different life? Then do something about it! Want to travel? Think it’s too expensive? Well, newsflash - it’s not! Remember this quote by Benjamin Franklin, “You can do anything you set your mind to.” It may sound cliche, but it’s the truth. You may have an ultimate goal, but the path to reaching that goal may not be exactly what you think, and it may not be as glamorous as you imagined, but with enough thought, passion, drive and tenacity, I believe you can accomplish anything! For me personally, my entire family judged me and believed that I would fail at opening a photography studio - fast forward to one year later, I was 20 years old, running a profitable high-end studio that was worth well over six-figures.
You have a choice - get your head in the game or continue living a dying life of unfulfillment.
(Photo via http://www.onslowcountync.gov/Landfill/)
When I take a look around the world, I am violently sick to my stomach. To be honest, escaping the world’s path of self-destruction is part of the reason I travel. I want to dig deep and find the last remnants of the world’s culture, before it’s all diseased and gone. Then, I want to escape to the furthest, most remote place on this earth - just to spare myself from the shame and the influence of what humankind has turned our precious planet into.
When you look at the ‘big picture’ in life, (that many only slow down enough to see once upon their deathbed) you will realize that the ONLY things that are important in life are those you love, the experiences you shared with them, those you’ve had it in your heart to help and potentially the growth of self-discovery. I urge you, NO... I PLEAD YOU to see reason, to quit wasting your time and happiness on the faux shackles keeping you from living your life the way you want to live it. Life is SO DAMN SHORT - for F#%K sake, just do what makes you happy!
Do you want to lead a different life? Then do something about it! Want to travel? Think it’s too expensive? Well, newsflash - it’s not! Remember this quote by Benjamin Franklin, “You can do anything you set your mind to.” It may sound cliche, but it’s the truth. You may have an ultimate goal, but the path to reaching that goal may not be exactly what you think, and it may not be as glamorous as you imagined, but with enough thought, passion, drive and tenacity, I believe you can accomplish anything! For me personally, my entire family judged me and believed that I would fail at opening a photography studio - fast forward to one year later, I was 20 years old, running a profitable high-end studio that was worth well over six-figures.
You have a choice - get your head in the game or continue living a dying life of unfulfillment.
(Photo via http://www.onslowcountync.gov/Landfill/)
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