No Matter How Fast You Run – You'll Stay Where You Are

The Hedonic Treadmill: A False Sense Of Lack

You probably read the title and thought to yourself "Watchu on about Sabrina!? I may not run that fast, but bitch I ain’t that slow…" Well, buckle up sweetheart, because I ain’t talking about the typical running game you had in mind … We’re talking way more serious business here – aka – the hedonic treadmill.

And let me tell you one thing: you may run like a speedy Gonzalez on the treadmill at your gym with inclined elevation and all that shit I don’t know about, but once you embark the hedonic treadmill, get ready because you ain’t gonna run as fast as you think you can 😉

People who are stuck on the hedonic treadmill often don’t consciously know it. (Unless they perhaps listened well in their psychology class in college) Those people are under the impression that they are close to the finish line of their race – that is, close to attaining true and authentic happiness.

But I’m the bad news guy and I’ve got to tell them the truth they aren’t quite ready to hear: they ain’t at the finish line because sadly, they took part in the wrong race to begin with. Oh and while at it, Imma gently ask them to take off their rainbow-tinted-lens, because clearly, they ain’t seeing life for what it really is.

Wake Up Or Stay Asleep

I mean, if you want to awaken from the fake reality you’ve been living in, there has to be a point where you realize you have to wake up, right? Unless you wanna keep on living in this delusional reality. To each their own, right?

Unless you possess a novelty inducing magic wand (if so, you better give it to me), the truth is that we’re all pretty much fucked.

Your new wardrobe will become old before you know it.
Your favorite song will annoy the shit out of you before you’d like it to.
The high of a new love will eventually lose the chills of its excitement. (you can thank the chemicals of your lovely brain for that one)
You’ll eventually get used to your 10 000 square-feet mansion after all. Better to cry in a luxurious spa, then to shed dem tears on a 10 year old mattress, right? Or not?

There’s no way around it: we all come from the same species after all, and none of us is immune to the fatalities of being a living human being. If you wanna make the best out of your time on here, the best way to start would be to wake up. Take a long look at the way you are choosing to live your life. Do you start to notice familiar patterns that you’ve enrolled yourself in and that have taken you nowhere? Do you come to realize that the ways by which you've chosen to distract yourself, be it sex, drugs, food, love, consuming, are only short lived fixes that only deepens the void within you in the end?

None of us wants our illusions to be destroyed after all, right? Sometimes, the truth is just too painful to be heard. But sometimes, breaking free from these illusions is the very thing to do, as it can lead the way to the most extraordinary path of life ahead.

The path of Human Consciousness. I can promise you that if you are bold enough to dare to embark on such a path, runner or not, you’ll want to run as far as you can to expand the horizons of the most beautiful thing we have:
our Consciousness.