God it’s been long! I honestly can’t count the number of times I have started thousand pieces of writings that I have never really concluded. I can also not count the number of times I’ve been reminded to update my blog because my last post specifically said that I would be consistent. But life happens, doesn’t it?
Most of us move along the spectrum between our best and worst days depending on what’s going on around us. We may definitely not have total control over our emotions especially when they’re very intense and overwhelming. But you can control them. Influence the thinking and feeling.
Despite existing in an era with the highest living standards in the history of mankind, recent polls have revealed that we modern people are for want of better words, miserable, angry, depressed and riddled with anxiety. More so than ever before.
Conversations with people within the age ranges of twenty to forty tend to have a similar trait of talking about life experiences in general. It really is the span of how very confusing and shocking life has been, things they could’ve done and undone and definitely things they’re proud of.
What it’s like for most of us in the early twenties is the somewhat shock of this thing called adulting and the pensiveness it puts you in. Back to back. It is untold and they barely give you the full information you need. Well we wobble, fall, pick up and keep going. Which ever direction it may be.
Thing is, some of us enable the situation. It’s already as bad as it can be. And we mostly steer it wrongly. And eventually cannot deal. It circles into depression and anxiety of which we have come to normalize saying and the easiness that it is passed off of with.
My concern is the mental health of our generation. And the seriousness it needs to be addressed with. Everyone’s mental health is important regardless of its intensity.
Question is, why are so many people truly prone to anxiety and depression in an era of possibilities and somewhat endless potentialities?
What happened in modern society to make this so widespread?
Maybe it’s because of technology and it’s wide acceptance that has many benefits and serves as a buffer between us and nature. Maybe it’s because we spend too much time in our own heads which is not as bad until it’s all you’re engrossed in. And end up shooting your self in your foot. Or maybe it’s because we’re a product of the polarizing media propaganda machine that undermines our intelligence and rotates a bandwagon that we take turns to jump on, exaggerate things that are the barest minimum, literally praise water for being wet and inadvertently posing a new status quo and normal.
Whatever you are, whatever enables you in that direction, you need to control and put measure to.
I feel like even though we’re all connected it’s because of the internet. Driven away from that it’s mostly loneliness and division and all those feelings that align you to depression and anxiety.
We need to band together. With the people that we genuinely love. Reach out to people that matter and even people that are remote to you. This ones for me because I’m the leader of not-reaching to people organization. Because listen, talking to people that you’re easy, comfortable and trusting with goes a long way to lightening the weight of your thoughts. You can take my word for it. If you want.
We can overcome pitfalls of emptiness and uncertainties and somewhat be prepared for this thing called adult life. Well not entirely, but to an extent. And then fully tapping into our full potentials as human beings.
Also get out of the rat race.
And enable self care.
Let’s do this life thing with all the sanity we can gather.
Do whatever makes you happy.
Go all the way.
Love, Abs.
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