Can you see me? Are you sure? What do you see?
Ah, you see what you want to see, you see what you see and then filter it through into your boxes of understanding. Do you think that your filters are correct? You do? How much of what you filter is me, and how much is you and your expectations of what should be, what I should be?
I put myself out there, I try to show who I am but how many are paying attention, how many are able to overcome themselves to drop their tinted glasses and see me clearly? Perhaps it is me who is inauthentic, perhaps I am filtering the information poorly. Am I the liar or they the fool?
It is a problem that we think we see without knowing if we do. We believe that we know without thinking if it is possible to know anything at all. At least enough anyway. Perhaps we are just too self-centered to see what is true, or maybe our selfishness protects us from the truth itself.
It is potentially life saving or mind preserving to live in illusion as the truth might be too much for us to bear. It could be so large and complex we are just unable to ever comprehend it and we will short circuit or worse, it may be so simple, so basic that we will go insane from having missed it.
To live a life of struggle only to realise a life of plenty was just a step to the side would be soul crushing for many, for me also? Perhaps instead of being destroyed by the realisation that my past may have been greatly different I would embrace the future. I doubt this, I am wired to live in the past, live in what was rather than the reality of the now or the uncertainty of what will come.
It is evolutionary really, I am not to blame. Evolution adapts to the environment of our ancestors, it is not a predictor of what will come to pass at all. Some just get lucky I guess and make it through. We are different though in this respect now, we can create, we can change and manipulate our environment with direction. We can destroy it too, our evolution is now ours to shift.
We have definitely been a very destructive force whilst also being the most creative the earth has yet seen. Well, as far as we know. There could have been a myriad intelligent life forms that have come and gone over this time. Not everything becomes fossilised, not everyone need leave their trash behind. That is the thinking of humans.
Once we outgrow, once we pollute enough, we move on to greener pastures. Soon it will be space, colonies started to mine and pollute other worlds. Do you think we will change our process? Most likely it will be more like a new house, empty storage everywhere, not enough furniture and stuff to fill it. Yet in short time, it is a mess with all kinds of irrelevant and poisonous crammed into the corners. Time to move again.
I am not invisible, nor are you. We can be seen by what we leave behind, our stench and filth, while we think that no one will notice that we have not cleaned up after ourselves. No matter what we believe, we are all to blame, we are all in this together. Is there a way out or are we just prolonging impending doom. We shall see, will we not?
Perhaps we won't. Perhaps it will come so fast we do not have the time to consider our folly. Here's hoping.
Taraz
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