Wednesday the 18th of September 2024 and the title of today's reflection is going to be the realm of delusion. So as I was walking back from an event I kind of like began to pay attention to the people and to the environment around me. Whenever I make a journey to
London especially I begin to enter this mode of observation, but specifically from a perspective of social science or at least from the perspective in which I've been taught, like when it comes to my history in school, in academics or whatever it is.
From a majority of my observations, I definitely kind of like, I wouldn't say tainted but they are definitely informed and influenced heavily by the Marxist perspective. So I begin to observe the architecture of the building, buildings, I begin to pay attention to the sorts of people that I'm walking by, the people that are walking by me. And effectively I begin to question, review, maybe evaluate the whole idea or the whole notion that we as human beings, whilst we are 99.9% biologically the same, there is in that demise some sort of hierarchy between who is above who and who is below who.
This kind of reflection has led me to wonder about the realm of delusion. us needing to get by. I tend to come to the realization that because of this existence that many of us do to a certain extent. Many of us who have had this dream to one day become this famous artist or this successful artist, kind of have to struggle with the notion that reality definitely paints a different picture in terms of what we can actually become. So there's the idea of what we would like to become, what we hope to become, and then the reality that effectively we have to face and you know kind of like when I was like
walking past like you know this one particular individual who was working on a construction site I kind of like started to realize or not necessarily realize I started to reflect on the reality that you know unless there is a very kind of like certain way or I want to say when I say certain unless there's a very definitive way in which I can climb myself towards the position that I've often dreamed of that is, you know, kind of like semi-detached from, you know, the whole notion of the rat
race, the whole notion of kind of like having to work beneath someone or having to work for someone. The reality is that I will be just like everybody else. I will be effectively dependent on the system. Even the people that are, you know, many rungs above us are dependent on the system. And it's just a sad and unfortunate term of events that the people who tend to suffer the most are the people that are at the bottom rung of the food chain, at the bottom rung of the ladder.
You know, it's kind of like effectively like I'm saying all of this to say that it can be scary and it can be sad and it can be unfortunate to know that for many of us this will be a reality that we will all fall upon because we haven't seized the opportunity with enough ferocity I guess. But then at the same time I also feel like making this realization is our greatest strength. It is our greatest strength because it allows us to not necessarily assimilate but it allows us to compartmentalize how reality actually works. And it is when we realize how reality works that is when we can begin to kind of like take advantage and take control of our own lives as a means of effectively building that dream that we have always aspired to manifest.
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