Normal?

Yesterday and today have beens spent with an old high school friend, we'll call her Cara. Cara is extremely intelligent and awesome, yet she seems to be struggling in our current societal model.  She works retail and her schedule is all over the place.  She drinks when she has the next day off, she eats hot dogs and hot pockets.  She feels bound to her work and restricted in her dreams.  Sound familiar? It seems many of my Generation (those in their 20's and 30's) are similarly struggling.  Work doesn't pay enough for us to live our dreams, follow our passions, or fill our stomachs in a healthy nourishing way.

In addition, Cara is surrounded by a culture of fear and unhappiness.  Her and her friends talk about people, and work instead of ideas and plans. The shows they watch on T.V. (which is on nearly all the time) only serve to increase the drama of their lives, lowering their vibration.  Crime shows, reality T.V. dramas and Cops, it just seems like a lot of extra stress that could be avoided.  Plus when the T.V. is on the conversation is not, and we lose so much by not talking to each other.

I love Cara, I want her to be successful and happy and fulfilled, but in this current way of living those things are unobtainable.  Instead she, like so many others, will search to fill a hole in themselves with media, substances and sex.  We have to change this.