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For the last decade, I’ve been frustrated with how little I can get done with the time I have. I’m realizing anything worth pursuing takes far longer than I wish it did. I want to change faster, and I want to keep up with the world around me which seems unburdened by time.
In the pursuit of change and progress, we’ve taken the call to put away childish things and chased becoming the wrong kind of adult. We’ve defined life on our terms, at our speed, free of any authority outside of ourselves.
These free, fast-moving selves are untethered to the past, to tradition, to a larger purpose over our days. Our culture believes that “Every human has the right to define for himself or herself what it means for him or her to be human.” Finding that definition is to find true authenticity.
In his book, The Congregation in A Secular Age, Andrew Root writes this about our culture’s pursuit of authenticity:
“The vehicle for identity to meet the speed of late modernity is performance. You're free to have whatever identity feels most authentic to you, but to really possess that identity, you must meet the speed of modernity, not be free of it. Not coincidently, those who seem the most authentic are those moving fastest, those with the most Instagram followers, those who most directly perform their identities to win recognition.”1
Be whoever you want, but to sustain your self-defined world, you must keep the plates spinning, or else no one will notice you.
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