My mother is the least spiritual person I know. In fact, I think maybe she’s the only person I know who I can truly say isn’t spiritual at all. This isn’t in any way a bad thing… It’s just the conclusion I’ve come to based on recent observations. It’s not new information. It’s one of those things… like when someone tells you the meaning of a specific word, and after they tell you, you hear it all over the place, but you never heard it before. The person giving you the meaning didn’t cause everyone to start saying it all the time… It just never occurred to you to listen for it. My mom didn’t just suddenly become nonspiritual. Recent events have caused me to be more aware of it.

Recent events have caused a lot of things.

I’ve been listening more when people talk about their spirituality. How it effects their life, what role it plays. People talk about it a lot, and half the time, I don’t think they realise they are. For some people, it’s just such an integrated part of their life, that practically everything they talk about, somehow relates to it. For some people, it’s fallen from spirituality to a somewhat superficial habit. The chic trend. For others, it’s a source of identity or reason for the way things are. Some use their spirituality to define who they are and the choices they make. Others operate under the “everything happens for a reason” theory.

The one thing that seems to stand out the most, is that most people are hypocritical. They’ll talk until they’re blue in the face about their spirituality and what it means to them and how it governs their everyday choices, then in the same breath or moment, say or do something that completely contradicts everything they just stated. I’m not sure I can say that I’ve ever met someone who actually follows through with what they verbalise as their spirituality. Ever. That’s ridiculous. Hypocrisy drives me nuts. It’s such an avoidable thing. Admit your true intentions and it’s a simple thing to follow them, because it’s actually how you feel. That’s the issue with most of those people. They claim to have a certain set of beliefs either because they’re told to or it’s what’s “right” or “correct” in their world… Or any number of reasons. But they don’t follow any of it. Because it’s nothing more than words to them.

It just doesn’t seem like you could be truly happy if you’re not honest with yourself. Though, ignorance is bliss. And the whole thing certainly seems ignorant.