Authentic Revolution

With the world ever evolving into social media, memes, and twitter hashtags authenticity seems to be falling further and further away from our pursuits.  We crave knowledge and immediate gratification over truth, vulnerability and lasting relationships.  My father was far ahead of the times (Who knew?) when he would disappear from the family for hours, days and weeks to pursue hacking adventures, and computer repairs.  With the fastest access to each other we’ve ever had in the history of time why do we feel lonelier, more depressed and further from each other than ever before?

We’ve lost touch with each other.  We’ve lost touch with ourselves.  More importantly we’ve lost touch with our creator.  Keep yourself distracted, keep yourself working, keep yourself busy this is the only way to find joy, and hope, and life.  This is the ultimate reality we’re being fed, and we’ve bought it hook line and sinker.    We work longer hours, and we spend more time staring at our phones and tablets. We know more random facts, more funny jokes, more ways to make fun of each other and hold nothing sacred.

We cannot, will not be bored.  For if we are bored, we must think.

We

Must

Think.

If we think, before long we’ll find ourselves questioning real things.  We’ll find ourselves questioning our lives, our hopes, our futures, our purposes.  We’ll begin to search after authenticity and find ourselves wanting to know our friends more deeply, and our families more passionately.  We’ll find ourselves in pursuit of truth, and love, and life.  All, we have to do is stop being distracted.  This is the first step toward the revolution.  This is the first step in finding your hope.  Finding authenticity.