You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie

by Johnny B. Truant

We used to make the choice not to cross a plain based on fear of the pain of being eviscerated. Today we make the choice to not start a new venture based on fear of the pain of failing.

It’s ironic. Letting yourself experience what you most don’t want to experience is the only way to truly be human.

We spend a lot of time accomplishing very little.

Move over, reality. Now there’s Reality 2.0.

as our lives become less and less genuine, we require bigger and bigger thrills to scare us, for just a moment, into feeling human again.

degrees, but every one of us has a part inside us that wants to feel discomfort, because it’s visceral.

It’s human.

The more we try to eliminate the negatives in life, the more we consequently eliminate the positives.

Life isn’t meant to be lived through a filter.