People like to talk about how we can all shape the world we live in, that reality is a subjective thing that can be shaped by what we believe and what we do. And this is true…
Except at the edges. There is a point in the subjective space where objectivity kicks in, and there is indeed a right and wrong, the yes and the no. This space is reserved for the axe murderers, the dictators, the pyramid scheme artists, the fascists and a litany of other (often times colorful) characters. These people have lost their privilege of shaping their own subjective reality.
But for the rest of us, for most of us, reality is a piece of clay waiting to be spun. Yes, we are all challenged by the obstacles forced on us by paperwork and To-Do lists, the laundry and the garage that is never organized. We’re pushed and pulled by the many obligations of work and everything else that tries to box us in.
But we can control that. We can slowly wrestle these realities into something that works for us if we’re intentional enough. We can make often make the world behave as we wish and not the other way around.
George Bernard Shaw had this to say about it:
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
Shape who you are. We’re all depending on it.
