addicted

Today we live in a world designed to provide us with heavy dependencies. We depend on our jobs. We spend eight long hours a day, five or six days a week working our asses off for somebody who doesn’t give a shit if you live or die. What’s more we try to build ourselves a successful career just to make sure we have enough money, and we most likely forget to live for ourselves, to settle down, get married and have kids. Of course the continuous income is enticing as hell. We need it to buy necessary and unnecessary stuff as we’ve long forgotten how to grow our food or how to manufacture allurements of the eye. So we purchase our semi- or fully-prepared meals conveniently from the supermarkets, sometimes not even knowing how it looked like when it was alive, and our knick-knacks from the ‘time-and money-saving’ malls and shopping centers. We make our choices depending on their special discounts and bargains, and on some advertisements that are just thrust upon us by the media. There are billboards everywhere on the streets, posters in shops, banners on websites, spam in our private mails, flyers in our mailboxes. So, without even realizing it, we come to buy products because they’re promoted not because of their quality or products that we don’t even know what to do with just because they have a pretty persuasive ad. On top of all this we believe that we actually enjoy the guaranteed right to freedom of choice whereas in point of fact we depend on some monopolies like electricity companies, which thrive by providing a fundamental service that we’re practically dead without. We need electricity to make all this new revolutionary technology, that helps us live more comfortably, functional. We are way too attached to the bulbs that illuminate the boxes we call a home, to our electric ovens, stoves, microwaves and all sorts of kitchen robots that save us our precious time, to the fridge and washing machine we simply can’t do without, to our vital security systems that give the feeling of being snug as a rug, nevertheless to our indispensable accessories such as laptops and tablets, which aid us in staying connected to this whole world. We desperately need to check our mails, messages and the like lists on Facebook, where we share banners advertising that life is outside. All the same we nod our heads in agreement, maybe give it a like and keep staring at the screen and running the power. We depend so much on the inside of our home, where we feel protected from the dangers of the outside world. Instead of going out in the treacherous nature we prefer to connect our system to some channel that broadcasts about ‘wild life’ or stare at the fishes in our aquarium when we want to induce ourselves a relaxing state of mind. Instead of enjoying the society of a real person we prefer to make friends with complete strangers from the network. We go even there to choose our life-partners based on some profile matching sites. We became so ignorant that we don’t know how to choose anymore and what to do with our choices. Blinded by this need to make ourselves indispensable to others, we simply slip into a routine of some actions that we think we need to undertake to keep up the pace with the world. Ironically we’re still looking forward to our bleak future.