By now you have done the math enough to know that life is not going to be slowing down on handing out the rules and expectations for how you are expected to live within the society that you are a part of.

No doubt that you may have been growing ever restless about why you feel as if you are missing out on something important as if there is something not quite right with how you feel about the direction your life is taking, but you can’t quite place your finger on it.   

It’s a generational thing.

As our awareness naturally raises through the constant influx of information that the internet provides us daily we become more sensitive to the invisible strings that pull on all of us throughout our lives, and we become more agitated by them because we know that not all of these rules and expectations should apply to us. After all, we are all unique, and we all know that our lives should be our own to live, and deep down we are starting to want to know who is putting their thoughts in our heads, and we want to know who we need to blame for this restlessness in our souls?   

It’s a generational thing.  

You were born into a family that has a long history that dates back to a world that you could never truly know. Your parents can only teach you what they have learned and have been taught from those that learned from those who came before them. Each one of us is forced to grow up within a society that has been learning from its past as well, and like all great revolutions, it takes a long time to come to a full realization, and what we believed in long ago is still mostly what we believe in now; because, in many ways, this generational thing still works for the system.

Hollywood sold us on the American dream.

Disney sold us on what love should look like.

And social media is selling us on impossible standards.

We are taught from birth what to think and what to feel. Sometimes it is as innocent as being provided the best advice by your friends and family to keep you out of trouble, out of prison, and out of the morgue. While other times we are being led down a specific path by marketers, governments, and corporations. Each one finds its way to get into your head, your heart, your soul, and into your bank account.

Still, it’s a generational thing.

It is this way because it’s how it has always been, and it still works for the most part.

And here you are, one restless mind among the others, trying to find your voice, just like the others, and not quite knowing why that voice is so damned hard to find, just like all the others.

And the truth is, you are living in a society that was not made for you. Society is an abstract thing. It is chaos with some rules attached to it to keep it from spinning out of control, and not all of those rules are going to apply to you, even some of the laws are going to go against your core being.

The tribe you are in is far larger than the friends and family that you know, it consists of the world around you that has also been taught the rules, the expectations, and the laws. So you see, freedom is a beautiful idea in a world that doesn’t have true freedom for most of us, and we are starting to see the imbalance of power that exists, and your restless mind is preparing for its revolution against this all.

But generational conditioning is a powerful thing.

Chances are, you are not going to change society in this life, but you can learn to work with it in a way that works for you. Much like a painter, if you learn to step away from the painting, in this case, society being the painting, you will start to see it for what it is. From this vantage point, you will see that it’s ok to choose your way, that you don’t have to be a ‘yes’ person to make everyone happy around you, and that it isn’t important to make everyone happy around you. If you take a step away you will see that you are free to make your life what you want it to be.

Yes, a lot of the programming can be blamed on a generational thing, but that being said, despite all the expectations and rules, it is up to you to accept or deny the system.

The next generation of ideas belongs to you.

Will you choose to accept the discomfort of blazing your unique path?

I hope so because the world could use a few more free-thinkers.

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