I hate being in “reality”.
The monotony of reality kills me.
What kills me even more is the conception of what reality is; that being the “real” world; a place where you “face your problems” instead of running from them. You don’t daydream, you don’t really dream at all. It’s not time for silliness, or imperfections. It’s time to straighten up, put the shoulders back, and attend all of life’s bullshit.
Who wants any part of that? Why would anyone want that to be real life?
Instead, why can’t reality be the good stuff?
Reality can be the insanity you experience when you let yourself go.
You take risks, you stay up late drinking, you get lost getting to know another person, you search for your soul.
Why isn’t reality the planning of the amazing life you want, as opposed to “facing” the shitty life you’re living, and forcing yourself to come to terms with the fact that you will always live in it?
Why isn’t reality cooking new foods with loud music playing, reading amazing books, laughing with your family, and doing what you want no matter what time of day or night it is?
Pleasure is so frowned upon in the world I live in.
We are meant to know about pleasure, but not live in it as a reality.
We are allowed to experience pleasure for “special occasions” or as a reward for suffering through long bits of life that quietly steal the life from us.
We aren’t taught to connect with people. We aren’t taught to connect with ourselves.
We aren’t taught to take care of our souls, and often times not even our bodies.
Self-pampering is looked at as a form of vanity. Putting “valuable” time and effort into the way we look is a selfish thing, even though we feel our best mentally when we look our best physically.
We are expected to miss out on sleep in order to complete various tasks; tasks that are far more "important" than the health of our minds and bodies.
We get snubbed for wanting to keep a healthy diet and we feel guilty when we indulge in the foods we love.
Politeness is so rare, people mistake it for flirting.
We are expected to criticize our bodies and verbalize our flaws rather than talk about our success, and we are programmed to replace thank-yous with a rebuttal of any compliment we receive.
We are programmed to hate ourselves for eating “fattening” foods. We’re expected to be in bed at a certain time and stop eating after a certain hour; not necessarily because of health reasons, but because of the expectations of what “normalcy” is.
We think of sex as a provocation of the devil, and misuse it when we participate in it. We use sex for physical stimulation, and don’t treat it as the tangling between bodies and souls; the deepest form of soul-to-soul connection available to our physical beings.
We are expected to push through our sicknesses, and mask our personal struggles. We are expected to put on a smile and pretend there is nothing wrong so that others don’t feel uncomfortable when we behave like actual human beings with feelings and pain.
We think of God as a form of taboo, a box you don’t open for fear of offending others.
We don’t receive freely. We feel in-debt to those who give to us as opposed to taking an act of kindness with only a grateful heart.
We live in fear of what taking a risk might do to us, so we let the safe routines of our boring lives kill us slowly and quietly instead.
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
-Edgar Allen Poe
And I’m literally so sick of being sane.