Everyone around me is socially conditioned.
Everyone around me follows the world’s way of doing things.
Everyone around me is chasing happiness in the form of wealth, success, self-improvement, titles, experiences, and material goods.
Everyone around me is suffering, anxious and has a mind which doesn’t stop chattering.
Everyone around me is attached to everything, event, person, circumstance and don’t even realize it.
Everyone around me is socializing, going on holidays, addicted to social media and phone use.
Everyone around is judging everything and having opinions about everything.
All of this has an unavoidable influence on my thinking and feeling whether I realize it or not. I am not strong enough to not be affected. This has been proven to me time and time again with how I change when I’m around certain people.
From my own experience, living like everyone else in the modern world leads to suffering and fruitless chases. What’s more disturbing is that because everyone lives this way, it’s considered normal and even acceptable.
No one I know of has peace. No one I know of is interested in obtaining freedom. No one I know of is interested in the truth. No one I know of is interested in success. Even those who do obtain success are still suffering and living on an emotional rollercoaster. The reason why everyone is living like this is because since everyone else is living like this, it makes people unavoidable conditioned to be the same.
There are certain people in the world who are exceptions. People who see through the world and the status quo. People who see through what living in the world has or will give them. People who see how their whole daily existence is pain and suffering. These people do exist. However, they are extremely, extremely, extremely rare.
I consider myself one of these people. One day soon, I want to be free from everything. Every day will be a blessing. The mind will only talk when it is required or if it automatically appears it will be seen through. Floating through life and being detached from everything. Living moment to moment because I realize that the external world can only lead to pain. Moving away from right and wrong or good or bad. The only way for this to happen is to leave the world behind. Not necessarily become an ascetic and live on a remote island but distance me from the world and its people.
I’ve experienced enough moments of clarity and peace to know what is possible. That which is possible is total freedom from the mind and being attached to nothing. This is how I was meant to live. This is how everyone in this world was meant to live.