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With memories of the past twelve months still lingering we are advertised the opportunity to reflect, review and resolve. Baby, it ain't over till it's over, not only Lenny but also clever marketers know, and Spotify has created a soundtrack for this, a playlist of The Ones That Got Away - songs that we missed/wished we’d discovered earlier in the year.
By Jasmin Rahim
The myth of speed is one that is being imposed on us by media, and fueled by our egos and the uber-ambitious culture we live in. I don’t know about you, but I can catch myself ever so often creating rush and worry where none exists. The outcome however, isn’t changed by my speed nor my sense of busyness. So why the race? It’s something that seems to be intrinsic to the american culture: we are defined by what we do, what we produce. It’s the first tidbit shared with strangers, and the first question asked at parties. And the implications of not producing enough, not moving fast enough thus makes us feel less than. As someone who writes social media posts at the rate of us snail mail, I know what I am talking about. Socrates taught us the unexamined life is not worth living… But how are we supposed to live, to examine, to be, to become, to be fully human when we are always speeding through life?
How we perceive ourselves isn’t the ultimate truth to who we are. It’s merely an idea that we have created for ourselves based on our biography; our experiences and feelings.
To understand who we are, we have to let go of all the ideas of who we have been; releasing the identity that we created in reference to our past; to assent to societal structures, to please ourselves and others. For we are, similar to the ocean, multifaceted, ever-changing in nature. The ‘you’ you are today, is not the same ‘you’ you will be tomorrow and the day after. The Self you think you know is merely one of many selfs, a controlled hallucination.
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