it's because I'm trying to escape some aspect of reality.

There are so many ways to do this now - so many distractions claiming to be important.

I started being much more picky with what I take into my world, and it's easier to be present when being surrounded with things and people that I really enjoy.

My brother (@galenkp) would say, "design your life, don't live by default". The default conditioning at the moment is to be a passive consumer, not an active creator of our reality.

Being more authentic took away a lot of cognitive dissonance also.

Life is much easier as we remove internal conflicts. Social media generally encourages living the lie, but I hope that it can change to living one's truth instead.

You are most welcome :)
It looks like you are pretty new here too, so welcome to Hive and checkout some of the communities :)

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