I’ve noticed in advertising lately that a method used is to talk to the audience as if they belong to a group. For example, “We all love video doorbells.” In political advertisements, we are often told that the candidate is or isn’t “for us.” I guess that type of advertising works because they keep doing it, but for me it really puts me off. If I ever hear the words “we” or “us” in an advertisement, I automatically think that it doesn’t refer to me.
I guess it comes from having OCD. I just have this feeling of being alien. I don’t feel like I belong anywhere. I didn’t feel like I belonged in my own family when I was younger. There’s just always been this feeling like being human isn’t exactly natural. I guess the best way to explain it is I feel like a being stuck inside a human body. Maybe I’m more in touch with my spirit than I should be. I just don’t feel in touch with this world the way other people seem to be.
Sometimes I wonder if maybe one day the mothership will come and get me. Or maybe if I will transcend to a different plan of existence where it will make more sense. I realize both of those options are more about magical thinking than anything else. I think the reality could be much simpler. I just think and feel a little different than most people. I’m not really an alien and I’m not special in any way. I just have to find my own way of living and being that will glorify God the best. The amazing part is that when I realize that about myself that when the “we” and “us” applies to me. All of us are just trying to find our own way in this world. We walk our own unique paths, but we are all walking those paths together. I think that’s why God wants us to love one another as we would love ourselves.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
