What we are currently thinking is what is defining our reality, our priorities, how we feel and what our choices are, that can even be the case when everything around us has a different truth than what it is we are thinking. If you are crossing the street you will only do so if you believe it is safe, but then have you ever had a close call when it turned out it wasn’t safe? I would assume you have, I have had many. So the point is that, what we believe is true is not necessarily true but still we make choices based on what we believe to be true even when our information or perception (taking in and processing information by sight, sound, touch, taste and smell) is incorrect. The truth that this is inevitable is of course a big part of what life is all about one way or another for us human beings who must make much more complex choices than what to eat and where to sleep today. So “look both ways” is what we are taught as children when crossing a street, consider the possibilities.
How things have changed…(I have several “when I was a kid” stories I could put here) our age is the information age and a lot of information comes at us on these screens and what is it all really but 0’s and 1’s that end up as what is on the screen? Pretty much anything that is media, is what I believe to be an accurate answer. Does a comment or post have to be true because we see it online or in the media? No, I believe is an accurate answer. Does a picture or video have to accurate and unedited because it’s online or in the media? No, I believe is an accurate answer. What I am getting at I think is clear enough and doesn’t need to be drawn out further. Clearly the accuracy of the information we take in needs to be reliable and legitimate. Who can you trust really when of course not everyone is out to misinform us but some are. The answer I have to put out is, yourself. Be independent of mind, your beliefs, your opinions and so then your choices are yours. Questioning is never wrong, if your being told it’s wrong to question when your intentions is just to understand clearly, then something is wrong. If we aren’t questioning but just absorbing and following or maybe or maybe not just reacting then that is not even being a conscious human being.
Your strength is who you are, your power is your ability to choose. Don’t defer those to another, they are more precious then anything about you or that you own. The things we own are mostly just tools of some kind one way or another, even money is really just a tool. Consider the many uses of a hammer. Or money, what good does it do to have financial wealth if a person makes destructive choices? And so what is it we are making choices about and what our choices end up being depend on what we believe to be true, don’t defer that to another either or it may be that without realizing it you are giving who you are and what you choose to another to control.
Now I will close this simple blog post on a complex topic with a wish to all to have a great Christmas season, Happy Holidays (whatever holiday you like, I like all of them) and Happy New Year! Below are some Christmas themed art, I made AI make.
Find the images that go here (Christmas trees)
Happy Invincible Winter season everyone!!!