"Is it real?!"

I was lying outside on some grass the other day, just enjoying the world. I listened to the breeze blow through the trees, the sound of children running up and down a hill next to me, and to the sound of quiet laughter in the distance. I was caught off guard as this little girl behind me asked her father about something he was holding.
"Is it real?!" she asked as her eyes lit up, and she grasped her father's hand to get a closer look. He just stared down at her with love in his eyes, but those three words played themselves over and over in my head. What has this world come to where everything that is brought before us has to be questioned? Constantly we have to ask ourselves if what we are seeing is real...
And this will never stop.
Our children, and our children's children will constantly have to question the world like this. Whether what they are looking at can really be trusted or not...
Ugh, doesn't it kill you? Think about it, we live in a fake world. All the material things around us are basically lies. They promise pleasure, happiness, joy, relief, escape... They promise you riches, they promise you security.
And here's the sad part: we fall for it. All of it.
In one way or another we have decided to become a part of this fake world of ours. We scroll through thousands upon thousands of web pages a day, reading, obtaining, sharing, agreeing and even arguing. We might not see it, but we have let the world take a hold of us, pulling us further away from where we have been planted. It sways us, pushes us...
You see it everywhere. And now we are here, left to question the most innocent of things, desperately reaching trying to find stable ground, but coming up with sand...

My friends, this world is not a world that will let you go easy. It will test you and try you, and in the end you will come to realize that it likes you better on the ground.
But keep your faith. This will be the hardest test you will ever have to face, but I know that you will make it.
I know it.