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Blinded…
Blinded as we walk down the street..
Too blinded to see the people we used to greet…
Blinded by a light that takes up everything we see…
Blinded to see that were not truly free…
Technology has blinded the youth of today…
People like you and I will see the world different from the generations of yesterday…
As technology grows, we grow along side it.
We strip away little things we see and then we hide it.
We hide it in a jar inside us
That shapes us to become the people the world sees us.
Because what we see, becomes what we are.
Bill Gates once said, “We’re changing the world with technology.”
But is this really a fitting ideology?
See from my point of view it’s the opposite
technology is the one shaping the world.
And we are the ones playing catch up
While we thought we were at the summit.
We were slowly beginning to plummet.
Because Tied to our devices,
our mental health is sometimes at stake
we compare our happiness to others
Even if both peoples smiles are fake
Those who know less often smile more
Because those are the people whos minds don’t venture far from the shore.
Into an ocean of toxicity, information, and confusion
These people keep a clear mind free of delusion.
Unlike the screens blinding our youth
That are feeding them with lies while oppressing the truth
we often scroll through useless videos on our FEED
But we don’t FEED ourselves the information we NEED
Sometimes we don’t even FEED ourselves at all
as we lose track of time scrolling and scrolling, FEEDING our minds.
Now don’t get me wrong it’s a great source of entertainment,
but often we find ourselves standing on the same side of the pavement.
By this I mean we didn’t progress,
we stayed in the same place we started from.
Physically the same and mentally drained
by seeing useless things on a screen all day.
It’s a habit that’s almost second nature
A habit that’s changing our behaviour
A habit easy to start but hard to break
Sometimes a Habit that will eventually break you
A habit you blow off until you notice that its true
So take a step back and disconnect yourselves.
Notice things you haven’t BEFORE
BEFORE its too late to notice them at all
BEFORE picking up a distraction, that wont catch you when you fall
Put yourself BEFORE your wants and not after your needs
because once you do
you’ll begin to see
The person you thought you were yesterday was never truly free.