Listen To Your Inner Silence
They are all different episodes with different characters, and all have to do with the future, technology, and some dark side of human nature.
One was pretty frightening.
It was these guys who had to “power” the city by riding these stationary bikes all day long, watching these big TV screens.
They’d get “credits” which they could use to buy food, or entertainment.
They lived in these tiny cubicles, and the walls were pure TV.
Here’s the horrible part. Whenever they played a commercial, the sensors would sound an alarm and charge them credits if they closed their eyes.
Meaning they were forced to watch what the rulers wanted to show them.
Now, this may seem like some horrible future that will never happen, right?
But many of us are TERRIFIED of being left alone with our own thoughts.
Just this morning I saw several joggers, all with mp3 players stuck in their ears.
Are our thoughts so frightening that we need to drown out ANY silence with anything we can find?
It’s been said the problems of humanity can be traced back to our inability to sit alone with our thoughts.
When I was younger I used to do a lot of backpacking. One of my favorite parts was lying awake at night, just listening to the sounds.
Often times we look outside ourselves for solutions, when the answers are within us.
They HAVE to be. Because the only thing outside of us are other people, or the things those other people have created.
Are you willing to let other people, most of whom you’ve never met, and never will, control the flow of thoughts through your mind?
Now, you don’t have to pitch everything and go live in a cave. But it is useful to spend just a few minutes a day with your own thoughts.
Either thinking them or writing them down.
There is so much more to you than you realize now, or will ever realize, or are even capable of realizing.
Life is meant to be one long journey of self discovery, that ONLY gets better.
But ONLY if you decide to take the journey. Nobody is going to take you by the hand and lead you.
Within you lies the secret of everything you desire.
Are you willing to listen?