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The Generation of Autopilot

The Generation of Autopilot

Do you ever feel like you’re on autopilot? Do you feel dull like a butter knife? It’s as if there was once a time when dreams and aspirations of grandeur were in your minds eye, but one day you realized you have been only watching other people’s realities while doing nothing yourself.

Life is a curious conundrum, as humans we collectively choose our realities and socially construct when and how we engage in society. We’ve become a species that is able to effectively communicate and educate through our technology on a global scale as a collective, reducing requirements for direct human engagement. We are powerful with our knowledge, but our emotions can contradict and abuse that power, causing polarized emotions to be displayed as if one was bare naked in public. Fear and silence have become the rebuttal to the crowd mongering hoards that are waiting to reject the original thought of an individual. We have so much potential, but we pacify ourselves with petty entertainment as economic and social constraints limit our ability to try and fail.

Is every day you watch someone else through a screen a day you have pacified yourself with inaction? Is there merit to this inaction? Do you gain useful knowledge in compensation for your time? What value do you place on time? Do you remember your last 100 days? What do they look like? Will your next 100 days look and feel the same as the prior?

What do need to feel alive? Do you want to feel alive?

Who do you admire? Who do you hate? Who do you love?

Where do you want to be right now? Are you living as the as best version of yourself? Can you live tomorrow as a better version of yourself than you are today?

Is the best you on auto-pilot?

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