After today's discovery that Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend was a dude played by Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, can we admit that we have severe societal problems in today's world?
From text messages, emails, facebook, myspace, tumbler, instagram, and many more technological social mediums, we are losing ourselves or failing to make true connections with others. A friend once told me that the phone call is this generation's hand written letter. That statement couldn't be more true. We have all found ourselves in a box consumed in self promotion, popularity contests, and desperate attempts for attention. You see it everyday. At the doctor's office, everyone isn't talking to each other, they're just on their phones biding time and waiting for something to gather their interest.
Or a better example, when a large group of friends go out, they're always a few who aren't as outgoing as others and within 30 minutes of the nights festivities, they are on their phones chatting on facebook, twitter, checking emails, and checking out of the action that is occurring right in front of them. People lose touch when they are hypnotize by their cell phones. We lose reality of what's going on around us. Our instincts become irrelevant or better stated, non-existent.
When you are watching TV or on the Internet, you don't realize someone is calling you even if they are right next to you until they have to yell or say your name 15 times. We disconnect from the real world. Lost in the screen right in front of us while losing sight of events happening all around us. Then, we complain about not living, having no real relationships, losing connections with close loved ones, and having the audacity to point out there isn't enough time in the day.
This brings me to the Manti Te'o Catfish story finally coming to fruition. Now this has come full circle, don't we all realize there is a significant problem with how we communicate with each other and spend our time(1).
(1) As you are reading this on your phone, tablet, or laptop.
Te'o became a victim in a terrible hoax by a person who is so desperate for connection, they will lie, scheme, use their respective voice coached lessons to deceive someone and coerce affection from another. And in the process compromise an individuals heart and soul. Once that soul discovered the fallacy of the relationship, they were to ashamed to admit it. They tried to cover it up which turned out to be the worse thing to do (2).
(2) I do not want to delve into the ridiculousness of this story one bit due to the criticism Te'o has wrongly received. Not to mention how pathetic it is that this is a 8 day front page story in this country. This is exactly why I am being vague.
The crazy thing about this whole story that this isn't the first time Ronaiah Tuiasosopo has done this, and now he gets a lawyer and seeing mental specialist.
What the hell is a mental specialist anyway?
Isn't that what a psychiatrist does?
My point---Don't trust lawyers!
This guy does not have mental problems. He is suffering from the same problem most Americans have. Trying to feel deep and strong connections with people but do not have the capacity to do so.
Wait, slash that.
All of us have the capacity to change, its just no one can do it for us. We have to take that jump with two feet and never look back. Everyone gets so complacent and it's so natural since it's apart of society that no one complains about it. Well, until they hit middle-age and decide to purchase and do something stupid trying to recover what they lost years ago. And only each individual knows what they lost until it's to late. We fight to try and get our youth back. Maybe that's what Tuiasosopo was doing. He is young and in his mind, this was the last resort.
I am not condoning his actions but I understand and have seen similar behavior multiple times before. Hell, there is documentary and a show off that documentary of people tricking others into deep relationships through social networking. Pathetic is the only world I can use to describe this behavior but this is where we are heading (or arrived at) and we have to find a way to detach ourselves on a daily basis so we do not trap ourselves in a box. There are millions of ways to free yourself....from yourself....sorry that was lame but I digress.
So find something out there that makes you happy and do it. Don't look back. Well look back if it involves drugs, violence, sex for money, gambling (this one is not directed at me...not at all), and eating terribly. Don't even bother looking back, just don't do it. Trust me, I am an adult.
I am glad I am ending this post on such an intelligent note.
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