ATTENTION WHORE!!!

The whole idea behind SPACE is to bring a critical eye with practical knowledge to our experience as young people. So I had to take a moment and examine some of the most prevalent manifestations of ego in our good ole friend, Facebook. Admittedly I love Facebook. I Facebook all the time. I am on Facebook right now. With 1 in 14 people on the earth having a Facebook account, it has truly become a microcosm of society at large. But lately it has been more of a social experiment than anything else, for me. I find myself getting a so annoyed at people on Facebook, especially those who are such blatant attention whores. It's like they may as well, post PAY ME SOME ATTENTION PLEASE. No Please. So I decided to list my top 3 occurrences on Facebook and infuse a little S P A C E into each.



1. My all time unfavorite: "I'm about to start deleting people from my page and life because I only have room for positive people and things in my life," 



Variations of these can also include, wanting to thank GOD for eliminating certain people or things from said person's life. Okay so my first reaction....is of course, understanding that this person wants some attention, but my second reaction is to offer some S P A C E. People do not have the power to make you negative. The people around you are not the reason you saw your past self as negative or the reason you see your present self as more positive without them. All of these realities are simply to result of your perception. You perceive yourself to be more positive now and therefore your experience of self falls in line with that perception. It is always the perception that comes first. Beyond that like energy attracts like energy. If you see yourself being attracted to different people than before it is because you these people are vibrating on a similar frequency. This is about perception too. Think about when you first buy a new car, a brand new gold Camry. Don't you seem to see that car everywhere now? Whereas before you bought it, you almost never saw it. Well now you are subconsciously more in tune with it, so it shows up more often. This is probably a more accurate depiction of what you are observing when you see some people's role diminishing in your life while other's role decreases. There is no need to make a judgment on the people that once occupied your space. When you do so, you judge yourself just as harshly. After all, at one point you were attracted to these people too. The universe does not require us to condemn one person or one state of mind in order to enjoy the benefit of another. The universe makes no distinction between what is good or what is what is bad. The same energy that beats your heart beats the heart of the killers and rapists of the world. As a manifestation of source energy your only role is grow and mature in the light of GOD. As you change internally, your environment and people in it will change with you. This is a natural occurrence, not the result of GOD removing or placing anything good or evil in your life. It’s about where you are placing your attention. Its 3 gold Camry’s in an hour. It’s perception.



2. “I am who I am and  I don't care if you like it!” “Fuck everybody….etc”



Is it just me or do people seem to be really angry and defensive? I read some of these posts and I am like...Who did it baby? Who said whatever to you to make you so mad? I must admit, I only have one Facebook friend that habitually feels the need to go on an electronic tirade every few days. I have entertained the notion of deleting her but I thought maybe I could channel that angry for something good. Maybe this is that thing. I have so many thoughts about anger and defensiveness, but my first that is that both are rooted in pain. No one wants to feel rejected. It sucks. We all want to feel good and whole and "loved-up." As a result when someone expresses a view that is contrary to ours or all-out attacks who we are, our first reaction is the pain of rejection. Next, we seek to defend ourselves.  If the attack is electronic and if we don't want to go to jail...we post something on Facebook. But what's behind the post. I feel like its pain. We were all told to find ourselves as children and now that we have spent all these years, finding ourselves....we will be damned if we let someone tell us we aren't good enough or whatever. The crazy thing is the same emotions that drove person A to attack to you, is the same energy that compels you to retaliate. Insecurity and Pain. We are insecure, because we have gotten so far away from our true identity, human manifestation of sources energy that we allow the transient physical nature of this existence to define and therefore, paralyze us. We lash out becoming overly defensive and critical. In truth, we are the S P A C E. The immortal emptiness that lays the framework for the entire cosmos. Forgetting this fact leaves up open to all types of negative emotions. When we are on shaky ground, our fist mind is to secure ourselves. However, when you know that you have the GOD energy inside of you, you know that another person’s opinion doesn't have the power to destroy you, (even if you admit to yourself that you do care what it is!). The whole world is waiting to SEE the beauty that you are. So save the anger for the treadmill. We want to see your light, not feel your wrath.  And I guarantee, once you start to become to person you want everyone to tell everyone you are…you won’t feel some compelled to defend yourself. The other day at brain school (yes, I go to school to learn the science of the mind. “I’m a dork and I don’t care what you think” Lol.). Anyhoo, our teacher asks us what is another name for GOD. And then he began to randomly call out random first names like Karen, Bob, Simone etc. In my head, I whispered, Kenya. No you try.....



3. Jesus this, Jesus that....variations include, “I am just going to do/go wherever GOD leads me” or “it’s all Gods will…he knows better than me”



As much as I want to preface this, I'm not. I am just going to take a deep breath, prepare for the judgment and say what I want to say. I do want to say that my biggest complaint with Christianity proper is the external locus of control that its followers all seem to adopt the moment they give their life to Christ. In fact, Christians will be the first people to admit that they have given their life over to Christ along with their thoughts and feelings etc. I disagree with this on a variety of levels but here I only want to talk about the externality of it. I am personally uncomfortable with believing that I have no control over my life, for some reason this seems lazy and irresponsible. As long as I have this phantom of Jesus to blame or attribute the happenings of my life on, I do not have to take any personal responsibility for my thoughts or the contents of my life. It is simply GOD’s WILL. Well, what if it was your will? What if you had to take responsibility for your life, the people in it and the things that go on. Would you be more responsible with your thoughts? Your actions? You assumptions? I venture to say that you would. I feel like a lot of people use religion as an egoic crutch. It’s what we lean on until we are well enough to walk on our own, then many people discard it until they need it again. Let me be clear. I believe in divinity. But I believe that divinity is encompassed within each individual person. It is our collective consciousness that make us (w)holy. (W)holiness can’t be used as yet another way to separate from other people. Another way to exert moral authority over the masses of ignorant sheep, waiting to be led. We are so much smarter than that. I feel like religion is the strongest sleeping agent we have ever come across. Xanax and Ambien have nothing on religion. We will do anything to believe that we have a key to something greater after this life. And what makes it greater? The fact that its exclusive? Limited to the loyal servants of this particular religion. Well what happens to everyone else? Or do we even care? In my opinion, not caring what happens to everyone else is same energy the fueled the 9/11 nine eleven attack, no one person or group of people can have a patent on salvation. That concept is completely foreign to everything that makes you human!

                                              

Whew! That felt good. I just needed to get that off my chest. POST YA COMMENTS!