Why perspective molds us while we mold our own perspective.
“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” -Mary Anne Radmacher
Although our actions, dreams, and vision may not always line up with those around us, whether it be society’s understanding, or the commonality around us on a daily basis of our lives, who is it to say we are astray, and whose perspective is justified and by what? Just because we’re not seeing what others are seeing, we’re not wrong or doing things the wrong way.
This leads to an interesting philosophical view composed by Nietzsche, Perspectivism. I’m not going to dig too far, however Perspectivism is “The idea that all ideations take place from particular perspectives.” And I truly think that there is a tremendous amount of truth and maybe even a little magic to that. Our lives, our experience, our sadness, our past, and our joys create our own perspective and ideology.
We are not necessarily wrong, and neither are those that look at us with a different perception.
Although the conversation we have with those around us can be essential and greatly influential in the progress of understanding ourselves and our lives, nothing is more imperative than listening to our own score and deciding which music is next.
While we are occupied getting caught up in everyone else’s idea of the perfect score, we regularly can’t hear our own.
Our lives are stitched together by our own personal intentions, dreams and loopholes from our mistakes and heartbreak, along with our design of the future that in our own heads through our lives and experience, we create. I sincerely believe that one of the greatest tragedies of our time is falling victim to the pit that is the world that exists on an alternate mindset than our own, and the inability to crawl back out due to the perspective that has shaped us within the pit.
Embrace your own music, celebrate your own music, enjoy your own music, and even co-compose with the world around you. Growth, and self discovery righteously begin with setting yourself outside the comfort zone of what you’re used to and being forced into surroundings that are foreign to yourself, your ways, and being challenged by your own personal views along with what excites you, scares you, and what you wish and dream for whether it be on a daily basis or a long term desire.
Surrendering yourself to your own personal, wild, wicked journey, rather it be external by flight, or internal by the decisions and thought processes you’re finding yourself making, could be one of the truest things that you can do for yourself and your happiness.
