AIR IS PART 1 BY johny rey
Life is a wild adventure, it is the gift that keeps on giving..... However, it's gifts do not always come with pretty wrappings or a card with clear instructions. Face value is never the full story and “easy living” is NOT a path of growth or evolution. I cheated. Turns out It takes way more courage to admit it than to do it. I have cheated in school, cheated in skating, cheated in business, cheated in relationships, and ultimately I cheated myself out of years of growth and endless substantial experiences. Throughout history, men have distorted their vision and accepted the cop-outs of society to convince themselves that it is not only ok but sometimes celebrated to be a mindless, emotionless, reactive, cocky, drunken, lying, manipulative, opportunist rockstar wannabe.
As a society, we have numbed ourselves to emotion. Society frowns upon emotional men, especially if they exhibit any emotion other than anger or superficial happiness. “Men don’t cry” is a universally known statement that has been around for many generations, ignorantly our youth takes that at face value and after a couple of times of great embarrassment as a child, being made fun of or even worse demeaned for having/showing emotions we tend to shut them right off or suppress them to our best ability. It is only when there is denial and attachment to false ideas and beliefs that truth hurts. Almost every aspect of my life was filled with false ideologies and detrimental beliefs.
As an only child, my mentality barely escaped egocentricity even as I entered adulthood. The world revolved around me, my feelings, wants + needs were the only things that mattered. What was the reason for this? Well...because that's just the way it is, was, and with a side of deliberately chosen comfort + ignorance would always be. As a result of taking myself so low, I was unable to recognize or feel how bad things actually were.
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