Modern day culture isn’t set up to make people feel good about themselves.
It’s postured towards comfort, speed, and clicks.
It’s important to point out that the byproduct of such a culture isn’t meaning, inner peace, and happiness.
The byproduct is pain, busyness, and distraction.
Which is why “going with the flow,” “fitting in,” and “keeping up with the whoevers” can be so detrimental (and is to countless people in our society).
Those who surrender to the flow of the culture quite often get carried away into the sewers which are composed of garbage thoughts, shitty feelings, and crap relationships.
This is all to say: being passive in today’s culture is a shitty option. Pun definitely intended.
And worth pointing out: this means that meaning, inner peace, and happiness are each (and need to be treated as) acts of rebellion.
You need to rebel against the call to comfort and confront positive pain.
You need to rebel against the aggressive demands for speed and deliberately create more space for stillness.
You need to rebel against the urge to constantly click, follow, like, swipe, and subscribe—and spend more time exploring, experimenting, adventuring, connecting, and building.
Don’t expect society to carry you along gracefully to the most fulfilled version of your life.
It won’t.
In today’s world, living the most fulfilled version of your life is straight up, an act of rebellion.
And it’s time to start treating it as such.