Delusion

Don’t underestimate the level of delusion people are under. People are shit. Even you. Even me. And there are a million ways to delude yourself.

People will spend £500 on a pair of trainers whilst someone else pays for the roof over their head.

People will spend £30 on a takeout and let fresh ingredients rot and waste.

People will steal high end makeup from shops but not wash properly or frequently.

People care for expensive cars but neglect family and friends.

People will spend money on phones, clothes, laptops and anything else that the world tells them they need whilst not buying the tools or the education to provide themselves with the things they actually need. And what with the internet, people are becoming more and more aware of this plight. They just don’t know how to deal with it.

Because accepting your truth and knowing how to use it to make good choices are not the same. Education may seem to be free. But packaging up knowledge into tidy bite sized chunks, isn’t education. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. What use are the tomatoes if you keep trying to make fruit salad?

The price of delusion is whatever you have to spare that doesn’t cost your survival. And people can survive like animals to afford to distract themselves from a reality that terrifies them to their core.

Can you blame them? If someone told you you had one day to live as a free person and then you could be spending the rest of your life in prison or dead, what would you do? For many, this is the sort of choice they are making from the hands they are dealt. An awareness of the fragility of life, is common when it’s been shoved in your face more than once. Who are you to say otherwise?

I’m guilty of all of the above at one point or another. Probably why I can write about it. I’m getting better though. I’ve never put a tomato in a fruit salad, I will however put sweet golden vine tomatoes from my own greenhouse, in a peanut butter sandwich! I’m learning how to use my knowledge to make choices that work for me. Sometimes my choices are delicious!