Are You Listening to What I'm Saying?

I find myself at times in life frustrated that people aren’t listening to me. I get frustrated that they aren’t interested in the things that I’m interested in. They don’t want to hear the ideas that I think are important and want to share.

In the age of the internet and social media, most people’s response is simply that you’re not saying enough, or you’re not saying (posting) it at the right time. If you don’t speak loudly and frequently enough, no one can hear you. But isn’t creating something and slinging it to the masses with no thought to how it might help or hurt the people you’re sending it to, just another form of modern spam?

With a barrage of media and advertisements in our face every single day, isn’t our attention one of the most valuable things we own? Our attention is what allows us to choose everyday what we choose to let in and what we choose to push away. It is ours to own and ours to spend at our own discretion.

I’ve found that in my real world life detached from the internet, most people only want to listen to what I have to say if I’m saying something specific to them. No one really cares about the things I shout at the random masses if it’s not individually aimed to benefit them.

Beyond that, most people don’t care to listen to anyone who won’t first listen to them. Most people don’t care at all about you, if you don’t first care about them. That’s a fact that’s been around since the beginning of time. For some reason, many of us are being told that no one listen’s to you because you're not speaking enough. Maybe, however, people aren’t listening to you because you’re not listening to them first. And many people aren’t listening to you when you talk because you’re not even giving them the courtesy of aiming your voice in their specific direction.

My hope with the future art I create is that I’m not just making it with the intention of throwing it out with no specific direction. I want my art to have meaning behind it. I want a message behind it that is purposeful, and directly spoken to people like me. I hope I can make something that the people who know me, and interact with me on a daily basis, can benefit from as well.

I don’t want to use the internet as a form of media detached from my real reality. I want to make sure that the messages I’m sending on here are simply an extention of the things I’m already saying in real life.