We go through our lives, prioritizing the information, experiences, thoughts, and people we encounter, consuming only that which we are “ready to consume”. What if we started to consume that information, experience, thoughts, and people that make us uncomfortable? Those things that don’t fit into our personal paradigm, those concepts that we were never taught or taught to prefer over another, all those other biases our history, nationality, culture, and family tough us; because as we go through our life, transaction by transaction, we choose to see what we want or can see, and not what is reality…
When those rude awakenings come at us, we resist, we fight, we mourn, and ultimately we come to accept it; yet we take it out on people around us and we hurt ourselves in some way or another because of it. There is no real solution… but what you can do is to realize that your reality, as mine, is flawed. Don’t forget that reality is a perspective, not an absolute! Although you can never get to absolute reality, you can only move towards it by opening your mind, and surrounding yourself with those people that challenge you, not those that reinforce your faults and deficiencies, as 99% of us do…
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