Thanks to reader Sandy for sharing this link from Lyft. If you’re going to one of the 50 “March For Our Lives” demonstrations this week, Lyft will get you there for free. I was going to leave it at that, but I’m just not a “leave it at that” kind of guy.
So…
Seriously, what’s wrong with people in 2018?
Forget this march for a second. I’m thinking about something more general.
I truly believe that if I organized a peaceful sit-in at a park tomorrow to support something that all of us should agree on…let’s say a “human rights for all Americans” rally…I’d bet everything I have that MANY people would have a problem with that “cause.” They’d loudly and passionately take the opposite “political” view. Against something that has no ulterior motive…the “cause” being nothing more than human rights.
It sure doesn’t help that we have so many narratives coming at us…so much constant information…that we’ve lost our damn minds. We don’t know why we react to things. And we don’t even know what’s real or fake anymore. That’s not a figure of speech, by the way. As a society, we have actually lost the ability to tell the difference between reality and total bullshit. If we’ve learned nothing else about 2018, we should all understand that very well by this point.
Now, if you’re feeling the familiar blood boiling sensation just hearing the word “politics,” have you ever examined the root of your emotions with that stuff?
Do you even care to look at what that might be?
Or is all of your energy spent fighting the never-ending army of people who disagree with what’s “right” within your story?
I’ve been really curious about something lately…
Let’s get to the eye of the storm. If someone asked you to stop investing any emotion on deeply flawed candidate Hillary Clinton or total nutjob Donald Trump…could you actually do it?
What if you were offered a million bucks to completely stop your emotional reactions on that one subject for the rest of 2018?
Could you actually do it?
Let’s say the bet is to take all of the emotional reactiveness, resist it every time it comes up, and redirect it into a kind gesture towards a person in your life instead…
I honestly wonder if anyone could do that for a year (even for a million bucks).
Anyway, if you want a free ride to a march, the link is at the top of this post.
