Dazed...

Have you ever had acid? LSD? Mescaline? Any hallucinogenic substance? Or maybe Special K in an excess?
If you have then you may have experienced the feeling I am about to describe... If not, don't worry, you already know the thing, only you didn't have it on purpose...
Imagine you are immobile and trapped in jelly. You look things distorted, colored and slow, and worse of all is that although your mind is working, it does so in rates that your body cannot cope with. As a result you start having a feeling of helplessness, you start realizing that you are unable to act, and even if you do, you will be really late, without any result. The time it takes until feelings as such overcome you and take over varies significantly from individual to individual and from instance to instance, but the fact is that they come. What also varies is the fact that some never succumb to them. They manage to overcome the attacks, maintain balance and reach untouched to the later stage, where pleasure takes over, when perception looses its grasp of reality and it moves to another level. The good thing is that most people have these feelings by choice, they wanted to experience such a mental state, which means that they have a choice and a level of control over it.

But what happens if you have the same experience without using such substances? What happens if you are so different in comparison to the rest of the environment that you feel this way day in and day out? Do you keep on fighting - because you know that no matter what you do, you will always feel this way - or do you fool and trick yourself into believing that there might be a point that if you give in long enough, you will forget...you will become part of it and thus treat it as reality..? Using substances, you know that when you stop, it goes away. But if it is reality what can you do?

Look around...It cannot be happening...Ok, we all love technology, we all agree that we should not live in the past...we need to move on, we need to evolve, we need to change...BUT!!! There is a big but there. A but that doesn't say - like most believe - that these thing must not happen. It simply says that before you move on, before you evolve, before you change you must have a firm understanding of the past, of the previous version, of the wrongs and mistakes already made, allowing you to become better, efficient and ultimately improve, not only yourself but also the environment you live in. But this never took place...It was never taught, it was never marketed, it was never funded...

Try the following: go in the middle of a crowded street and stand for about an hour...Observe the people passing by, not looking for something beautiful of ugly, good or bad, right or wrong. Just observe, and then go stand somewhere isolated, and think. Think what is wrong with the picture. Look around. The answer will most probably be there, in a small, empty old store, or in the lad/lass standing in the corner, smiling for no apparent reason - and no, she is not stoned or high or, or, or, or...She is simply smiling...

Compare, become critical, NOT CYNICAL, critical... Improve your manners and your approach and try to act accordingly... You will feel better and you will make a difference, one far more valuable that the difference you make by buying the latest cell phone that you don't know how it works or why it was created in the first place, or by the new shoes that you and Superman wear...