Not Sure What to Title This One...

I think it is unfortunate that our society is less written expressive and more instantaneous, fragmentation communicative.  There is a beautiful art to the written word that is seen in the classic literature of our society. I wish all spoke, wrote, and behaved (to some extent) in the ways of the days of Shakespeare, Jane Austin, or even F. Scott Fitzgerald. (I know, I have a very romanticized idea of what life was like in these times.) Words were the tool to self expression, communication, love, entertainment, life.  The days before the twitter, the youtube, the facebook, the tumblr, the internet, the phone, and even the camera. When what man wished to communicate he created with his very mind and hands; through the written word, musical note, the stroke of the paintbrush....

Much in our day and age is fake, unreal, and synthesized.  We all hide behind our computer screens. All the above mentioned mediums allow us to create a profile of ourselves that we wish the world know.  We can become anything (in a sense) through the use of social media.  Publishing only things that support the face we want the world to know us by.  We see this all the time in the news media, entertainment, government, etc.

Only the story we are told to believe is the story that is given.

This leaves us with the question of what is real?  And what is the truth?

I think I will leave you there...with these questions that demand an answer...
What is Real?
And what is Truth?

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