Get real! Get a life!

Does most of today's society from top to bottom actually know what reality is anymore? I wonder!

By Stanley Collymore

 

Is it really possible to fall in love with someone you’ve never

met that in actuality you’ve never even seen other than

trading selective photographs with them on Facebook

and whose sole means of communication between

the two of you consists of online chats actively

pushing personal narratives that even if they’re

not totally narcissistic in nature nevertheless

rely heavily on the hyperbolic promotion

of one’s self in practically every respect

while paying scant regard, if any at all,

to what is actually the stark truth about

yourself, that lets face facts and to be perfectly

frank about it is invariably a horse of a different colour

that bears no resemblance whatsoever to the one

that is both intentionally and dishonestly being

publicly paraded? Having fun for whatever

reason while honestly and mutually

acknowledging that specific

situation to be principally the case is one thing;

pretending and, even worse, deluding one’s

self that the shenanigans associated

with even the most enjoyable of such

pastimes is love says a lot about

those involved and seriously

raises more questions than

it provides answers.

 

© Stanley V. Collymore

2 October 2013.

 

 

Footnote:

It’s a sad indictment of our society generally that for an increasing number of people the only social interaction that they can have with others is through the world of virtual unreality that they reassuringly cheerfully ensconce themselves in and where reality plays no part whatsoever.