Dreams are an essential part of a vital life, but they cannot become more real than reality. The trap I fall into is letting my fondness for an ideal future become a fixation on fantasy. Dazed by the divine image of how things could look, instead of working with the raw and gritty reality of my real life.
We can ditch our managers, offices, or professions, but any horizontal leap will only land us on another treadmill. Resignation does not liberate us from the rat race. The ultimate escape—transcendence—is vertical, not horizontal. Otherwise, our individuality will be used for anything but our own good.
Lifestyle influencers who speak to their millions of followers as if they were close friends demonstrate this point exactly. Voyeurism is ingrained in our culture, in genres like “Day In The Life”, “Get Ready With Me (GRWM)”, or “Outfit Of The Day (OOTD)”. You get to gossip with her as she puts on her makeup, see her family in their unposed moments... See more