As we grow older, we realize that all we truly want is peace, both peace of mind and peace in the external sense. What more can we truly want than a place where we can relax and truly be ourselves, in the truest sense as well as in every sense? If we can share that place with other people who we can truly be comfortable with as ourselves then great, but if not then even being alone can feel like it’s enough as long as we are comfortable enough. Today, you could argue that this is even truer than ever because the possibilities are endless as far as our ability to surround ourselves with everything we enjoy and everything that makes us comfortable. From musicians and synth enthusiasts like myself with audio equipment all around their studio, to gamers with their high-tech setups, surrounded by tons of games of all kinds that they could play. Even on the internet, one could spend hours just on YouTube, learning about all kinds of things, or becoming an expert at one specific thing. Sometimes it feels like it’s easier and more sensible to stay inside and do what we like than to engage with other people, who are always unpredictable and have their own unique drama. The problem is that, just as it is easier to make ourselves comfortable nowadays, even in our own rooms by ourselves, it is also easier to become addicted to, as well as trapped in, the solitude and loneliness that comes with being anti-social. Sometimes we can fool ourselves into believing we are being smarter than the masses by avoiding people and avoiding hanging out with them or doing most of the things they do. Deep inside we might just be trying to justify our own inability to connect with people, or to try what they try or to be true to ourselves in the way they might be. Back to the initial problem I was describing though. As we become trapped in our comfort zone, we become more and more afraid of the world and more addicted to comfort, to the point that we may seek out things that aren’t good for us, either online or in the form of drugs and the like, in order to escape what we might feel but be unwilling to acknowledge. When we lack any sense of community and we have no friends or family we can really trust or rely on, or at least when we feel like this is the case, this is even more dangerous because we might never realize where we’re going wrong, and although we might always be externally uncomfortable, we will always feel an inner discomfort that comes with being disconnected from real life, from the air and the places and the people and everything else that comes with it. So, in the end, we can end up even more disconnected from the true essence of who we are these days, even if we choose to stay away from people and spend our lives by ourselves.
If you have a few minutes check out my song ‘somewhere out there.’ I appreciate you!
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