Outside You

Once again, I've managed to go a considerable amount of time without posting on here, so this is my kind of "welcome back" revival post. A lot can happen in a short amount of time; the interesting thing about the future is that you have very little experience in the matter, and if I'm expressing my honest candor, trying to plan for it is borderline inefficacious seeing as anything can and often will happen. But the most important changes that we make in our lives don't typically come from geographical location, monetary gain, or social circumstances, but more from the internal monologues we carry with ourselves. We have an opportunity every day to change something internal without others having to see it. Keeping our thoughts discrete within our own minds instead of parading it around like a new peacock feathered coat gives us character, it teaches us to treasure the things that are ours and not flaunt the fact that we've come to some grand conclusion solving the mysteries of social constructs and how to manipulate people into liking us.
We are growing up in a society where communication is only a means to an end, it has become a tool to get what we want with no virtue or sincerity in itself. But most of our problems in this little civilization don't come from the want to cause problems, in fact, we are often ignorant to what we have created, like the runoff of some societal evolution shaping up to be it's own self demoralizing sludge that pervades every crevice of our compassion. We limit ourselves with how much we can achieve by not only prioritizing, but dedicating our actions to a singular purpose, excluding all other positive effects of what we do because the positive effects only become dregs of our all consuming purpose. We make the sincerity, the compassion, the overall concern for our compatriots become superfluous to the grand scheme that has become our mandatory and exclusive cause for personal promotion. By this I infer that we have drifted from a society of mutually beneficial relationships for the sake of joy, safety, and security, and instead demote our actions to that of perpetuating selfish singular success, bolstering our own egocentric endeavors, and collaborating only because we are bound by our own frail existence to depend on others. One should not be surprised that in theory, if man did not require the help of others he would have no interactions with those that surround because of it's lack of necessity in their own undertakings. Prudence is only valid as it facilitates our comfort in this life, and therefore would be scoffed at and discredited should the mandate be removed. All things arbitrary for those living by their own means for their own means. But this mentality, this lifestyle is one of digression. As we replace the once tacit agreement of cordiality toward others for cordiality's sake, we neglect that once vivid part of our trust in others, and ruin our minds and souls with a belief that perhaps some day we can be left to our own devices, that we are somehow building up to an era of self sufficiency and independence from the shackles of our social obligations.
So, now that I've properly outlined our current dilemma, here's what I suggest; make a friend for the friend's sake, talk to someone to understand them, not to be understood, listen for the sake of letting someone be heard, interact with the opposite gender with no ulterior motive, and figure out how to remove your ego from each equation. Once we learn to again prioritize what the true purpose of our society is; to enlighten, to inspire, to embrace, then we relinquish ourselves from a hum drum society of pastel grays and we start a life of learning to be what others need, instead of turning others into what we want. If you can place another's needs before your own, you begin to understand what it means to be a forefather of a society of empathy, sympathy, and charity. Try to view the world from outside 'you'. And this is my external philosophy in a tea cup.