katemoore on Nostr: Reflecting on a lyric from a Noah Kahan song “I’m terrified I may never have met ...
Reflecting on a lyric from a Noah Kahan song “I’m terrified I may never have met me”
I’ve always been someone who thought staying comfortable and complacent was the fastest way to kill the human spirit. With a world so big and so vast and with so much to experience, our modern society funnels people into a predictable, stable, comfortable 9-5 lifestyle. You get your constant paychecks but they steal your time, your freedom, and the opportunity to meet your highest self. Comfort and convenience are killing us. It’s creating humans that have no real world skills, no abilities in the physical realm. Anything and everything can be done for you and delivered to you without an ounce of effort. When we get so used to this way of life, we lose all skills because we don’t have to truly work hard to sustain life. But is it really life we are sustaining in this modern world?
We outsource everything for ultimate comfort and convenience. People lose the ability to critically think, be creative and dabble outside societal programming- because predictability is safe. But to me, I’m terrified of living in this comfortable and convenient structure. I’m terrified that it doesn’t allow us to truly meet our essence. I’m terrified of not giving myself the fullest and richest life experience. I’m terrified for the old friends I have seen cease to grow or develop over the years. I have seen the lifelessness penetrate their thoughts and their words- or should I say lack of thoughts and words. I’ve seen how the stability and low effort of modern life has stripped them of their human spirit and kept them operating in a dull thoughtless, consumer-only mode. We aren’t meant to consume, we are meant to create. We are meant to construct life in an active way, not let life passively happen to us.
This trap of modern life is comfortable enough to prevent you from accepting the extreme discomfort and truth that you will never meet yourself because you were scared to. People would rather not face this truth. People don’t want to look in the mirror. It’s a disservice to our soul that signed up to feel and see and taste it all. So we accept monotony. With no struggle comes no growth. I’m terrified so many people will never meet themselves, but I vow to not be one of them.
I’ve always been someone who thought staying comfortable and complacent was the fastest way to kill the human spirit. With a world so big and so vast and with so much to experience, our modern society funnels people into a predictable, stable, comfortable 9-5 lifestyle. You get your constant paychecks but they steal your time, your freedom, and the opportunity to meet your highest self. Comfort and convenience are killing us. It’s creating humans that have no real world skills, no abilities in the physical realm. Anything and everything can be done for you and delivered to you without an ounce of effort. When we get so used to this way of life, we lose all skills because we don’t have to truly work hard to sustain life. But is it really life we are sustaining in this modern world?
We outsource everything for ultimate comfort and convenience. People lose the ability to critically think, be creative and dabble outside societal programming- because predictability is safe. But to me, I’m terrified of living in this comfortable and convenient structure. I’m terrified that it doesn’t allow us to truly meet our essence. I’m terrified of not giving myself the fullest and richest life experience. I’m terrified for the old friends I have seen cease to grow or develop over the years. I have seen the lifelessness penetrate their thoughts and their words- or should I say lack of thoughts and words. I’ve seen how the stability and low effort of modern life has stripped them of their human spirit and kept them operating in a dull thoughtless, consumer-only mode. We aren’t meant to consume, we are meant to create. We are meant to construct life in an active way, not let life passively happen to us.
This trap of modern life is comfortable enough to prevent you from accepting the extreme discomfort and truth that you will never meet yourself because you were scared to. People would rather not face this truth. People don’t want to look in the mirror. It’s a disservice to our soul that signed up to feel and see and taste it all. So we accept monotony. With no struggle comes no growth. I’m terrified so many people will never meet themselves, but I vow to not be one of them.