Life offers us so much to play with. Our challenge, after a while, is to be open to the unknowns, beyond the hurts and seemingly empty places.
Tag: perspective
I’ve never been a confident man.
I’m sure there’s some elaborate formula that would shed light on the hows and whys: this gene, coupled with that circumstance, those parents, that culture, those schools, those books, that trauma, that success, these friends, those choices, those actions, and that value… multiplied by this belief and that evidence, equals this man?
Whatever you’re developing, building, coding, researching, teaching or designing, if you’re doing it to subvert, antagonize, or undermine the system that is, you’re no better than you’re enemy.
In the next millennium, those who look back on our time may be curious as to how we persisted — and managed to survive — in such a strange, unbalanced, violent, and stupid state.
After the purifying fires, through those episodes of energetic upheaval and release, we gain perspective and maybe even a permanent shift in perception.