Ego and Me

Took me a long-ass time, but I finally realized that both voices in my head are my ego. That consciousness is deeper still.

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Trends.

Fads.

"That's who I wish I could be...," said longingly. "But my ass will never fit those jeans." "My cock will never satisfy that pussy." "I am a loser." "I hate me."

The excerpt you have just read may be easily be mistaken as real. Even fooling the innocent reader into a complicated series of their own thoughts. But no, this is an excerpt from any mind as it experiences admiration.

Yes, ADMIRATION because trends are not objects. Trends aren't something you can pick up, throw against a wall, and see broken into a thousand crystals (technically). A trend is the intellectual description or label used to describe admiration as it is broadcast by a population.

Everyone knows what it is like to admire someone. Stop in at any place, and you will see someone who is both gifted and well-practiced. They will blow your mind. You will understand how they are this talented, and you will even fantasize how you could, yourself, be like this person. You may be inspired for years. You may feel good about your potential. You may be heartened to experience progress towards this ideal that you have captured.

This would be admiration as it flows from your Heart.

There is another kind of admiration, and it is that produced by a catalytic conversation of the aforementioned experience. It is a heightened sense of urgency, an advertisement of assistence, and short-cuts that can stimulate one's mind into something of a fever, or a high. In this heightened states, great revelations can be made, but very little time is passed. Therefore, upon landing, one finds oneself staggeringly far, still, from the real diamond.

This is a cultural tendency brought about by the well-understood Human Dynamic.

And media amplifies it, million-fold.

Allow natural admiration to be swayed by Talkers, and you are simply trendy and have lost your true belief.