(03-25-2016, 09:43 AM)LionKing Wrote: ...
I don't have any answers, but I'm just getting really put off placing myself in those kinds of wanting scenarios. Its all just marketing. RSD is marketing. EDM is marketing. Cool cars and motorcycles are marketing. Success is marketing and sex is marketing. Love is marketing and any imagery we might aspire to is marketing. Especially beautiful women are marketing. I'm thinking there is good fun to be had in all those things, but the imagery/vision, and the desire to have that image and the lack that accompanies it, is marketing. But then how the **** am I supposed to break out and live outside that marketing when everyone else around me is fully engaged in it. But then what do I want so badly that I'd need those other people to accept my ideas about this? Do I already have it all.. and if I do, then now what? But its cool, I'm actually feeling really good just now.
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Believe it or not, I had exact thoughts running through my head a couple of days ago. And I battled against the same questions. Well, I don't have the answers more than you do, but an Emerson quote here sums it up pretty well, I suppose.
"It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
On that note, check out his essay, Self-Reliance, HERE. It is my one of my favorite pieces of writing of all time.
