14 - Accept your Shadow – 190 words

Seeking an adoring audience is an exercise in indulgence that resuscitates our fantasies of fame through the pursuit of chronic reaction.  This stubborn expression of doubling-down (on points of contention) is an addiction to greed; reciprocated by fans.  Your opinions have value when it registers chronic reactions (consistently).  Those reactions become the focus of our greed’s freedom to accuse others of wrongdoing to avoid humiliation echoed by fan’s fragility.  That dynamic shifts focus to stoke negative feedback.  Why?  The greed of cultivating reactions is to blame for recognition’s increasing focus on consistent, chronic results the larger the backlash delivers.  Backlash is consistently chronic.  There’s little incentive to accept your shadow because in your greed it convinces you your despair is more lucrative than your sanity.  You become imprisoned by your livelihood.  Life bribes us with the innocent trek towards a virgin horizon.  The rise (and fall) of the sun casts shifting shadows.  What does that mean?  Cyclical routines require discipline to ACCEPT your shifting shadow.  Your despair controls troll’s delusions of superiority with your greedy pursuit of earning their recognition.  How does one achieve recognition without fame?  Accept your shadow.