b-side

how much of our world is real? how much of it did we choose? we are told that what we want, we wanted; that what we built, we built; that the voice in our head is ours. but most of what we take for our self was placed there by what we watched, what we scrolled past, and the voices who told us we were free. the reality we live inside is constructed, but the construction is so old and so close that we mistake it for a thing we authored. we think the deception is fake images and invented archives. but, to me, the real deception is that we ever chose any of it. b-side is the record of a man who spent his life thinking he was the author of it. was he real? maybe that's the wrong question. the real one is whether you are. most of us are not, until we find what was already there. i have begun. i have a long way to go. 🌹