Virtual Reality vs Living an Authentic Life

Choosing to Live an Authentic Life: My family and I are as guilty as the rest of the modern world of the shame of watching WAY too much TV, and being addicted to one or another “reality shows", however one of those shows became the catalyst for the direction I’m choosing to take with my life…(The irony of all of this is sincerely comical as well as poignant). In said show one of the participants blurted out a line that simply pole axed me! As he was being filmed working his land he expressed a sadness at our “virtual world” and then he turned his gaze towards the camera and said the words that would change my outlook towards my life: “We live in a virtual world and it’s sad. People are sitting at home giving up their own lives to virtually watch other people lives, that so sad! I’m proud to say that I am not one of those people; I’m out there LIVING my life!” (as close a quote as I can paraphrase from memory) His words really reached out and touched me! I think of ALL the things I want to do in this life, creatively and mundanely, I think of how often I complain that I simply don’t have enough time. Then I think of all the time I spend in front of that flat screen watching characters, real and imagined, following their “lives” and “dramas” while the clock keeps ticking away on my own life…I also realized this applies to social media as well, another time sucker...very fun and provocative, but again, something that needs to be moderated in my own life.... I started to wonder how much more could I get done, how much I could create, if I started living, really LIVING, my own life instead of watching or reading about someone else’s? I'll leave you with that thought.....looking forward to sharing with you what wonders I discover as I make the choice to dramatically drop the amount of time spent watching tv and reading social media and get out there and make my own life happen!