How we ignore the obvious

 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! If this is not your go-to, end-of-the-year celebration know I am addressing you as well.

This wasn’t obvious? 

Reading into our traditions has been waning over the decades, I’ve realized. Why is that you ask? Many reasons, some I believe are based on our need to be unique and separate while claiming to be united. Traditions and religious beliefs can be very comforting and soul seeking with great results. 

For some. What I see who are seeking individuality has somewhat gotten out of hand. 

I was watching the current Netflix movie called Don’t look Up.  This movie must be watched with an open mind for it is trying to show what our society has evolved to with technology, politics, science, beliefs, and traditions. As one article wrote about this movie’s depiction, “…about how we are blowing it, hurtling toward oblivion.”

This tells me society, people, children, preteens, teenagers, young adults, new parents, mid-parents, even us oldies, we are all guilty of ignoring the obvious. Our selfies have made us all selfish! Our individualism has asked us not to “look up” and see our world as a unified place for individual ones to exist without harming another. Human narcissism. It’s all to real thanks to the vast array of social media.

The quotes you read on all social medias can deter you into isolation for fear of becoming one of them! We are all blessed, we all have at least one best day ever, and why is it you must have thousands of followers? What does that for your ego?

Is it not obvious? You’re individualism has separated so much you can’t see right in front of you nor behind or around you, and God forbid, you look up once in a while.

It reminds me of the day I was 9 or 10 years old in the summer at a lake, I cannot remember the name off hand but I was with my mom and sister of 13 months older than I. Mom and her lady moms all sitting out on the shore of this lake while me, my sister, and a friend whose mom was also laying out by the shore were sitting on top of a small inner tube in the calm lake. Chatting and being preteens in the late 60’s. Suddenly, the girl flips back, and my sister and I do the same! How fun!! Except it wasn’t fun.

Our legs were intertwined inside the inner part of this small inner tube and as one of us flung our arms up and out to rise up, that movement would bring the other down under the water! This went on for a good 3 minutes maybe more until one of the mom’s noticed this confusion inside the inner tube on this calm lake was 3 girls trying to escape a drowning moment.

It wasn’t obvious?

No, it wasn’t. Our lives don’t lead us to obvious notions. It takes study, observation, contemplation and the like to really see what is going on around us while we go about our daily lives.

Infotainment it is called. We want to be entertained at all costs, somewhere in our evolution we created beliefs that quietly tell us sitting alone is not okay, FOMO, another belief that has aided in destroying our psyche. 

It isn’t obvious? We are losing our purpose in life and replacing it with objects, behaviors and attitudes that ignore the obvious problems surrounding us.

When facts surrounding you are skewed and opinions are ridiculed, we are in trouble, denial does run deep. 

Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday, and make your new year obvious to others not just what you see in the flipped camera screen.