{"id":8193,"date":"2026-02-20T22:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=8193"},"modified":"2026-02-20T22:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:04:31","slug":"authentic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/20\/authentic\/","title":{"rendered":"authentic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We live in a crowded, noisy world. The glamour and desire to be someone or to be like someone have become supreme. We change, sell our souls, or behave unintentionally.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have upgraded our lives with wealth, and real\/reel life has merged. Our quest for material wealth and power is killing us from the inside. It is taking us away from the social fabric. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are wasting more money on our looks. We apply filters to our photos on social media. We spend no time on our souls or talking to ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our forefathers must be laughing in pain from above: they never anticipated civilization losing its authenticity. We are decades away from the singularity, the ultimate death of our souls.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a crowded, noisy world. The glamour and desire to be someone or to be like someone have become supreme. We change, sell our souls, or behave unintentionally.&nbsp; We have upgraded our lives with wealth, and real\/reel life has merged. Our quest for material wealth and power is killing us from the inside. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/20\/authentic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;authentic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[1736],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8194,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8193\/revisions\/8194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}