“Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see
It’s getting hard to be someone, but it all works out”
– John Lennon
It is so much easier to be happy and live a more content life if we shut our eyes to what is around us. Especially at the moment.
But is that who we want to be. Closing our eyes to what is going on in the world. Closing our eyes to others’ suffering. Closing our eyes to the changes in the world and what they mean. Closing our eyes to the problems our friends are going through. Closing our eyes to the things that are difficult and not our problem. Closing our eyes to the things that are inconvenient because they bring us down.
It is much easier to exist just for ourselves, to block out anything negative around us, but perhaps our lives are the emptier for it.
