I myself have said that I have a need for something real,
something honest, something true, and something authentic. I think the young
have some embedded sense of those being “fake”. We can always tell when someone
isn’t being “real”; when they are simply putting on a mask or some constructed
persona. We criticize these people only to find ourselves doing the same things in
different ways.
I could never stand the absolute lie that so many people
live. It used to make me incapable of really dealing with anybody, but I also
became fed up with my own hypocrisy. The
need for something “real” is, I would say, a great gift to youth. In a time
where people are growing physically and mentally, it is vital that we have a
deep desire to search for that which is not just another fabrication, and that
extends to our experiences with others. Thus we have an inherent desire to
encounter the authentic reality of the human condition, the real tribulations
of the soul… though we often want to experience them second hand. Again this is
a good thing, for what we are searching for can be found.
It is important to understand the desire or the search
which is natural to humanity and has such a prominent presence in the youth of
the world. When we say we are looking for “something real” we are saying that
we need to not be lied to. We need to discover for ourselves the origins, the beginnings
of our existence. The pursuit is one for the truth, and that is what
authenticity really is. The truth is what we need; the truth is what we seek.
Truth is reality and that is the natural need with which we are created. In this world today we encounter many lies and
many human fabrications, and that is why we feel an even greater desire for
that which is “real”. Because the world is hostile to the existence of a truth,
we feel an even greater need to find it.
So here is what
this means for us… if we are looking for the truth, for “something real” then what
we are looking for cannot be found in any of our peers nor friends. What we need
is only satisfied by the Way, the Truth and the Life. That is Christ. If you
have come to that understanding already great! If not, then understand what you
seek you will not find in friends and family (though they can help you find
it), but only in the ultimate truth of existence, and thus the ultimate truth
of meaning. And that, my friends, is the question, and the answer is Christ,
all things in Him are real. People cannot be entirely genuine because of
imperfection, and so the only hope for truth is in the Ultimate God, in Christ.
So if you find yourself encountering that need, that longing, look for the
whole truth, look for God.
God Love you,
AMDG
Peter James d`Aquino
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