February 03, 2016

Disillusionment

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Do you ever have one of those moments where you just stop and think about what really matters? What people you care about, what things you actually care about and how much you're just going on autopilot through your life, not really processing what's going on but responding automatically; just doing the same things day after day.

Ever just take a pause and realize that you're unsure of what really matters to you anymore? That if you took everything away, got flown to a different continent with no history of your past self, do you really know who and what you would miss most?

I'm just having one of those moments where I'm not sure what really matters to me anymore, and whether I'm doing the right thing day to day, or if I'm ignoring what's really important to me. I guess I'm just writing this down because... I don't want to just forget about these thoughts again, go back into automatic mode where I might not be paying attention to what's paramount to me, but rather what seems most important in the moment or what I'm 'supposed' to consider the most important by social norms.

I don't think I'm looking to discuss my own disillusionment here in the comments, but rather just maybe bring to attention the same sort of thoughts I'm having to the forefront of others' minds, because sometimes you really need to just 'wake up'.

This song is what triggered it for me: