Your Story Shapes You
How we see the world is an expression: It’s art.
There are many perspectives within our perspective, and things that influence how we see things.
An artist sets up an easel with basic colors and mixes them to create new ones. A sculptor works with clay, stone or any other material and shapes it into a new form.
Our perspectives can shape who we are at this moment.
Our power is in accepting who we are as our future self. Everything is a story and an expression based on a perspective, but there are still facts that cannot be wished away: The location where we were born, the people we grew up with, the foods we ate, and the culture we were raised in; are some examples.
But a moment we experience today is a work of art that has not solidified like a statue at St. Peter’s in Rome. It is pliable and can be reshaped.
We express ourselves in a way we hope others understand. It’s how we communicate. And how we communicate helps us connect to each other. Humans have a natural desire to fit in, to find common ground, and to feel accepted. If your community is a small group or if it’s an entire nation does not matter.
Some of us prefer to fit in with a giant community. But some of us rebel against the direction of the grain. We find value in self expression, as opposed to collective expression. We see being different as a virtue, not a curse. Some of the most famous inventors did not share the collective perspective and that had a direct correlation to what they invented, or created. Some even changed the world.
It’s okay to go through life waking up each morning and go about the day in the same way you always do, almost as a ritual. Filling your day with a scheduled task and moving to the next one without any deep awareness of who you are in between.
You feel that you have scheduled a weekend to break the tension from the week. But you’ve scheduled your weekend as well.
There is something to be said for finding space to schedule nothing during your weekdays and on the weekends. That’s because doing what you feel like doing at a moment’s notice can free your mind to your subconscious perspective.
It’s the one you don’t think about but it is always thinking about you.
Finding yourself in the myriad of things to do each day is not easy. It’s not a matter of being conscious about it. You are who you are based on your own perspective. But you’re also, in part, the perspective of the people you care about most. Your interactions with them will be depend on who they see you as.
We express ourselves everyday as we experience our day without thinking about it.