Why not stop and start?

Today I had a great awakening conversation with a friend. I do not see this friend frequently but when we see each other we have incredible, amazing, and very, very powerful talks. We started talking about our day and our work lives, one thing lead to another and we began talking about so many beautiful things. In our conversation we talked about how much of our lives, how much of what we do, so many of our actions are and have been our of our control, we have been trained, fed, and brainwashed in so many ways that for us to even step out of what we consider our lives now is weird, scary, and very challenging. In simple, to stop doing the things we're doing (eating, working, sleeping, loving) is very hard because we have been doing them for so long now and we feel that the way we've been doing them is right.
In so many ways I have had to face many challenges, the challenge we all face, and I mean ALL is breaking through, breaking through to reality, leaving everything we've been made to believe is real. This era (if not longer) will go down in history as the "time to get fit, time to eat natural, and feel incredible" but at what cost and suffering and how true is that slogan? We are told to be fit, so we exercise, we follow the exercise trends (yoga, pilate, and companies with their workout programs). We are told to eat natural, eat organic, so we buy organic meat and chips, we put a few more veggies into our oil-based meals, we add salt to make our food taste better, we eat a little more produce, we over eat. We are told to feel incredible so we do drugs (alcohol, over eat, party), except we don't call them drugs because they're legal and everyone else is doing them, we deprive ourselves of sun and water and sleep all day and go out at night, we go out only to see other people instead of seeing the beauty in nature.
As a promise to myself, I will not stay up late anymore. I will get up with nature, I will get up with the sun. There is nothing I will miss if I get home and don't go online or turn on the TV! I will get plenty of rest to feel energized everyday. I will not abuse my body by feeding it tons of fat food, alcohol, and unhealthy/unneeded $hit! They say you who you are becoming during my age (23 years old) is who you will be the rest of your life, I will prove that wrong too! I will keep changing and evolving, I do not want and will not be "figured"out. There are sides to me that are easy to see. I am sensitive with certain things, I am confident, I am very silly, I am very personable, I love many and many more, I am also very mysterious and plan on keeping it that way.
There are many beauties in this world, in this life, we lie in an abundance of it all but yet we are so easy to manipulate and mind-control that we have been made to believe otherwise. Take the time to notice how beauty time itself is, how beautiful it can be to take the time with certain people, to tell them how beautiful they are, what is so beautiful about them, take the beauty of time to see the beauty of nature, to see how nice and pretty flowers are to hear them talking and smiling. Too many times we have the time for all of this but it is not used beautifully. Many will read and take this writing as patronizing, as a way to talk down to others, I am sorry if you feel that way but I hope you can take this all with a more open mind, I ask that you do. So stop living the way you've been living and start living the way you must live!