Encountering the self!

Whatever happened to 2017: A year that arrived and soon to disappear? I wonder what have you done? What have I done/ What have we done?
Taking stock is a call for reflection: to reflect on what we did, how we lived , what we desired and what has been achieved or is it that we are continuously struggling? Will the struggle ever come to a halt in that we may perhaps say that yes I am truly contented. All is said and done and that there is nothing to aim for. The truth is that being is such that there is always a futuristic ;project which somehow provides a rasson d’etre …. in that there is always a movement onto wards something else. Otherwise it is all ‘fait accompli!’
2017 is the year of culmination of technology which converts us into a puppet ….nay a moron which simply follows the way of others. In the age of non creativity to be polite we are simply consumers of products whether it be in the physical, social, mental or otherwise?
Our being is tampered with whilst we think that we are in control. There is a superficial control in that all that we do is verily not out a free a free choice but through a conditioned choice which we have become accustomed to.
On the reverse side, we are superficial beings thrown here and there with little to contribute. From awakening to the time we take rest; it is all being pawns and controlled by the force of circumstance.
Whilst we lead a baseless life we are caught up and simply cornered into negative existence. There is nothing to aim for . That desire, aim and goal has been taken out of the equation and so has the belief in the self. There is a belief in the external or a search based on that which may not be or inauthentic projects in that there is a movement towards a veil of the abnoxious in that one is mesmerised and subjugated into oblivion through force of circumstance as there is hardly any effort aimed to counteract the forces. These forces are indeed so fierce that it may mislead even the strongest as super alertness needs be developed if one is to escape its claws: Often we are subjected to its impulses and in fairness most of us are so subjugated and so caught up in that superficial realm.
We give hardly little or no time to the self but merely through escapism. In that escapism we further endanger the self and become a puppet of the norm or of our time. As we may not live but exist through dipping in and chewing that has been thrown onto us. There is both a fear to face one self in bare form without having to take shelter of what mesmerised us: We like this process as we are not confronted or made to face the self which we are.
There is a constant running away … to another realm where there is a denial to look to stare and to see who we are. Projects and or being involved in mesmerising projects makes us forgets that self, the being who we are. Superficial existence simply a recipe for escapism. It is a continuous running away, a fear of having to stare en face with the self which we are. It is seeking an easy option , a hiding from what we should be doing and so we are contented in seeking solace with our devices or in the exterior?
The richness of being is nowhere to be achieved but through facing of the self rather than running away in projects or other forms of consumerism. Authentic projects begins with the self being acknowledged whilst other forms simply pushes it into oblivion and so the search becomes spurious: In genuine searches, one is free from the norm of the world. One may have a vision of being and yes one may stare en face with the self who we are!
However, this is not a mechanistic project in that in order to stare at the self we need do certain things. It is not for the writer to say if you do these steps well you are on the way to finding your being. It is more like can you as a reader develop your own strategies and seek that which you are. It is more of a pathless affair where in negation of the superficial you may discover your real self. Or it is not for the writer to impose a form or a certain mode to be. The world is already full of pundits who poses as experts in showing others. Ours is a question of self discovery through looking at the self . Can you look at your self without having to make use of a medium?
Or is it easier to just do those projects and be involved in superficialities? Is it easier to just follow others in their ways rather than just be? Sure there is less challenge in accepting ways of the world than questioning its existence or indeed no challenge for whilst we are mere consumers we remain mere preys or victims of the known or what has been packaged as truths and ways living than iof we are to question and keep questioning its very source. There can be no querying as we are mostly mesmerised and in such a mode of being there is no time to sare or reflect as aspects of reflection has been taken out of the forced scheme to be. As puppets we remain as morons. As morons we may not think. Where there is no thinking can there be creation? Caught up in a catch 22 situation we thus lead a superficial form of existence where all that is required is to lead a debase life.