Indeed, it really feels like this, and it is expediating. The phrase "In the world, Not of the World", resonated so many years back and I think encapsulates, exactly wha the OP does here with the title and image.
It should bring great solace that this has always been understood, but your TV , Media, peer-group, even family may not behave like it, which creates the discomfort.
In many ways, it is like a theme park, and like all visits to a theme park it is temporal, but there are many distraction to delay the inevitable.
The inevitable being you will still need to go home for dinner and sleep and so you will when the time arrives, as it does for all of us, but in that time, you can take others rides or your can build you own theme park and make it free for others, or charge a modest fee so that you can keep it up, whatever it takes within reason and the bounds of freedom. It is ok.
Indeed, it really feels like this, and it is expediating. The phrase "In the world, Not of the World", resonated so many years back and I think encapsulates, exactly wha the OP does here with the title and image.
It should bring great solace that this has always been understood, but your TV , Media, peer-group, even family may not behave like it, which creates the discomfort.
In many ways, it is like a theme park, and like all visits to a theme park it is temporal, but there are many distraction to delay the inevitable.
The inevitable being you will still need to go home for dinner and sleep and so you will when the time arrives, as it does for all of us, but in that time, you can take others rides or your can build you own theme park and make it free for others, or charge a modest fee so that you can keep it up, whatever it takes within reason and the bounds of freedom. It is ok.
Time to build a bigger better theme park!