LXXXIII (83) Vantage Points Along The Way

Everybody has their own version of reality.

The cause of much pain and strife is the idea that if everybody doesn’t see the same reality, that it somehow negates our perspective. In fact, this need for validation causes a lot of people to invalidate the realities of others, in order to feel more secure in their own. But it is a false security. Inside the gated fortresses we construct lies the same insecurities that caused us to push people away in the first place.

To be secure, we need to be secure from within, secure that our reality is ours, regardless of what the rest of the world perceives. We are all on our own journeys, and we perceive the world from different vantage points. These unique experiences are what we share in common, that we’re all struggling with the same ideas and questions, but in our own singular way.

Instead of guarding our perception, why not open it up to other perspectives? If we allow new ideas in, we may just find ourselves looking out at the world from a much better vantage point.