The other day, the notion
of portable worlds (realities) struck me the other day while waiting in line
for something or other. We are wholly unaware of the complex systems at work
that make our lives, and the tasks within it, possible. We order fast food, and
while waiting for it, check into our own little reality, our cell phone, to see
if something important in that defined and relative reality has happened. At an
airport terminal, we are completely unware of the complexity required to get us
from point A to point B, oblivious to the coordination of countless data
interactions, transactions and transformations in order for a successful trip.
We choose to evade, escape and retreat whenever possible into our personal
realities, tailored to our individual needs, interests and requirements. The
phrase “..He is in his own little world”, is literally taking on a whole new
meaning. What if (just for fun, let’s take this trip)…..the progression continues?
What if we continue to construct, develop and ultimately begin to inhabit the
individual realities, and abandon the natural one?
At one time, we all shared
one reality, the natural reality. The sun rose up, we endured the battles,
trials and challenges of the day, and when the sun went down, we rested and
prepared for the next day. We may have had different perspectives of that
reality, but it was an all-encompassing natural reality that we all shared,
interpreted and participated in.
The passage of time has
delivered us to an environment that is inundated with countless and individual
realities, tailored to the myriad perspectives
of reality, rather than reality itself. At what point do these individually
created worlds that define, organize and influence our life journey surpass the
natural reality within which we all exist? Taken to the extreme, if we all retreat
into the individual realities we create, and nobody observes the complex and natural
reality within which we exist, does it then cease to exist? Or, with it
unoccupied, is it free to get transformed, reconstructed (restructured) into
another natural reality, one in which we evolve to share again?
Fun, fun……
RBP
9/2/14
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