We are experience chasers — spectators — who believe everything is happening somewhere other than where we are.
Porn, television, celebrity, sports — we are watching other people live life while we project our selves on to these people.
We live vicariously through them.
Because the truth is our life is watered-down, barely penetrating us in any profound way. In our day-to-day we feel as if we are never becoming who we are at depth.
I know I’ve encountered brief moments of complete engagement — small occasions where I felt completely captured with the world.
But mostly my life feels like a monochromatic “almost there” of going through the motions and compromise.