Decade Blogs
Dupe Killa runs a familial posse of sisterly and maternal oversight on Twitter, and I first encountered her in one of those affectionate exchanges with her wards, I could not help but be engaged.
Besides, there are
many times I have written blogs that pertain to the deepest things of the heart
that she has commented on to commiserate, comfort and empathise.
It is on the basis of this that
I asked her to contribute to my #YourBlogOnMyBlog
Series commemorating my Decade
of Blogging which she willingly acceded to.
Dupe Killa in The Broken Ones
laments how we have lost our way, to pursuits of the ephemeral, in incessant
self-aggrandisement and selfish acquisition of material things at the expense
of purposeful and useful lives.
On Twitter, she is friend,
sister, mum, follower and followed by the handle @dupekilla – Enjoy …
The Broken Ones…
How does one start
to calibrate the damage of materialism
and the emptiness it brings in the
multitude of acquired ‘stuff’? Is it by the darkness of the void created by the
blind pursuit of ‘things’? Or is it by measuring the reverberation of the sound
of emptiness where reason (cold, deep and track-able) should have been loud, clear
and objective?
Before our eyes, the pursuit of happiness has been blatantly reduced to nothingness. Nowadays, if you cannot touch it, use it, spend it, then it cannot be contributory to happiness. Under our watch, we eroded the time-tested methods of self-improvement and the uplift of humanity. We did not only move backwards, we stepped away entirely from the tracks of human progression.
We are broken.
The Sea and Broken Wings by LuneBleu
Maybe it is just me
but run a system check on yourself too, please. How many people in your circle
can build a car? Or a phone? How many can fix a broken device…any device? How
many have created something new? Something different? Do you have anyone in
your orbit who can create a flying object? Do you know anyone that still flies
kites? Does anyone collect anything? Stones, shells, anything? Is anyone in
your network a gardener? Do they dream of creating flower hybrids or new
plants? Do they ponder with you, the quandary of creating seedless fruits? No?
Okay, turn the
other cheek. Are your families and friends big shoppers? Label and brand
hunters? Are you all ‘early arrivals’ to the latest gadgets’ markets? Do you
find yourself gasping for the ‘next thing’ just after acquiring the current
best thing? Do you keep questing, thirsting for more? Are you beset by a
feeling of inexplicable dissatisfaction with your life as you know it even
after ‘counting all your blessings’? Do you ponder for long moments the
question: ‘what is this life’ and yet
have no answers?
Are we not broken?
When technology over-dosed, we gorged and are now suffering the consequences. The world shrunk, everything became available without notice or manual. The choices we had were endless and it was always going to be tough making the right call. We inevitably made the wrong calls no thanks to Sod’s law. The simple life
was too mainstream, so off that went. Why fix things when you can get a new
one? So off went incremental knowledge too. What we forgot is that in fixing,
we learn the whys, the hows and the ‘never-agains’
The biggest tragedy however has to be the wholesale monetisation of emotions. We want it and we want it now, flunk delayed gratification. We are broke… and broken. Saliently or otherwise, we have tacitly agreed that ‘everyone
has a price tag’. The evidence of that lies in the fact that the very best
of us simply asks that the price be high. What a tragedy that we all can
actually be bought. What a degree of brokenness…
If perchance you
find some recognition or truth in any of the above and want to make an effort
to fix it, it is possible. You can try and fix yourself and then focus on
ensuring the next generation are not beset by your ‘brokenness’ either
genetically or socially. Focus on the little things: eat and drink sensibly…
give rather than receive where possible… fix it if it is broken, don’t bin it…
find some simple, yet special endeavour and dedicate yourself to it.
Ask how stuff works
and see if you can replicate or improve it however crude your tools and
methods. Create your tools. Consciously be at one with nature from time to
time. Question everything in a progressive way. Pledge on behalf of the next generation:
Never Again.
Life broke us. Can
you fix you?
Broken pieces by www.JaqueWatkins.com
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