Disorientations of Life

Many a times life puts a lot of boxes in our faces that always seek to get us to conform to the status quo, and really step out of our true character in Christ, it’s always about trying to fit in with the ‘in-crowd’ or trying to be someone or something that’s already out there and often we always lose our true self in the hope of trying to be that which society dictates to us, or what we think we ought to be.

We can try to think out of the box, but really where is the liberation in being inside a box in the first place? I always find it very funny at how life and circumstances always pushes you to conform to the norm and the status quo and still expect you to be unique and “think out of the box.” Often we ourselves allow ourselves to be inside all kinds of boxes that we think would thus make us more acceptable to people or appear to be even more smarter than the average Joe on the street. Also, on the other hand we put on these masks, masquerade to try and hide all the chaos that is going on in our hearts, we often fall into these boxes of society just so that no one can notice our hurt, thus leaving us feeling like we have been singled out from the crowd because what is going on in our minds.

If you really think about it, the more we try and hide our hurt, the more that hurt is fed and the more damage it cause our being, and leaving us beyond misery and despair. Our trying to keep up a façade that is farfetched is really not doing us any good, because all of us are called to be that which we truly are in Christ.

For really to what extent if there even is one, does it profit for one to be keeping up with facades and trying to please people and have them give their approval of who and what we ought to be in life???

I have this picture on my phone which is actually quite funny yet brutally honest at the same time, basically it’s a picture depicting 4 different types of scenarios; (and they are the following)