Experience

[Behind the Pursuit - III]

You used to have to travel to Disneyland to experience the magical world of your favorite cartoons.

“Disneyland" is everywhere now. The pseudo-world where soil never grows weeds, wearing masks is normative, and the thrill of pure entertainment is around the next corner, is literally everywhere.

Target is selling it.
Youtube is streaming it.
Fox is covering it.

What’s behind the pursuit of the next exhilarating experience?

Is that vacation about experiencing Mayan ruins or is it about vacating the ruins in your life?
Is the restaurant experience about encountering a new cuisine or getting a picture to portray a life of perpetual culinary adventure?
Is all that coming and going and experiencing about being busy or is it about needing to be too busy to sit still with yourself?

I’m not sure we want experiences as much as we want other experiences than the one right in front of us, the one we’re afraid of encountering head-on.

People like us love experiencing what's new and exhilarating. But unless we first commit to experiencing the slow, real world right in front of us, all the new experiences will be an escape. And we won’t fully encounter any of it.

Find a weed. Pull it (or not).
Take off the mask.