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You Can Always Take Back the Wheel on Your Life Path
Who’s driving this life anyway?
It’s all too easy to get distracted and unwittingly allow outside influences to take the wheel and do the driving.
Much of this is due to modern society’s near obsession with automation, ease, instant gratification, and the like. This obsession leads to doing more and more by rote, routine, and habit. So much so that even personal matters take that form, too.
Rote, routine, and habit aren’t part of the conscious human mind, but rather the subconscious mind. When that’s how you tend to operate, you can easily fall into patterns and flows that might not be the paths you’d choose for yourself.
What’s more, society often prefers it that way. On the one hand, we reward and revere successful entrepreneurs (no matter if they’re genuine successes or fakes, and no matter if they do good for the world or are driven by money, power, and the like). Then, on the other hand, we warn the burgeoning artist or entrepreneur in our close circles to be reasonable, consider security, and that acting outside the norm is something to be feared.
Is it any wonder we have a mental health crisis? It never ceases to amaze me that more people aren’t schizophrenic. When you are being told in one breath that sex is dirty and…
