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"Reality"
4-7-08
Nothing's real in this world of makebelieve
The heart on your sleeve
It's not reality
Just another commodity
4-7-08
Nothing's real in this world of makebelieve
The heart on your sleeve
It's not reality
Just another commodity
I agree one hundred percent. People only want and need emotions when it is convenient to them, the rest of the time we either want to forget what we feel by pumping ourselves full of drugs and alcohol, or we want to feel what someone else is feeling by losing ourselves in tv shows, movies, and music. Not many people experience and know what true, raw emotion feels like because they have buried them so deep, the emotion we see and portray is nothing but a convenience, a way to just be with out having to think too much.
Under depending circumstance, emotions can be bought and sold, such as being manipulated or beneath pretense sadly if viewed that way.
Yet at on the other spectrum, it is an integral part of the human factor; both positive and negative emotions that is. As commodites it may be perceived that way but how else can we describe reality without them? How will one grow without learning? It's a learning tool, in short. If one's reality is interpreted as so, a reality as "made believe," and pouring skepticism, don't lose confidence just yet. There is good, there is bad, there is indifference in reality. Inevitably there's still more left to learn...