What some people have at their doorstep and they choose to ignore, many others in the world would give an arm and a leg for.
Was skimming through my last year notes from college and something about accessibility and affordability caught my attention. I hadn't' thought or written about it much back then, but somehow it makes more sense now, after an almost unimaginable dream has been lived and is over.
What exactly is accessibility? Well maybe it goes two ways - one where you are aware of something but cant reach it, or you have it but you don't know it. (Both having it and realizing it is a lucky, but perhaps a very dry coming together).
The first situation is usually known in our world as a misfortune and the latter as a privilege, maybe something you are born into as well, a birthright.
Thinking a bit back to man's starting point in life - he is born into a nude space and time - he is shorn of 'circumstances'. (What he is born into is his parents circumstances, not his). He is born on a blank slate; thus during his life, there is every opportunity for him to change where he is, what he is, what he is doing, and what he could do.
If one is born into a financially 'poor' space, that need not be his 'fate' forever. One could say it was 'destiny' or something to have been born exactly in that situation, but actually, being in that situation is a 'constructed' circumstance of his parents as well, if we go back a little; either they were also born such or did not do anything about it. It is a continuing constructed circumstance.
The first step is to be aware of this accessibility to evolution, though, and that is where clinging on to'fate' or 'destiny' happens for the most part. (Is it genuine ignorance or feigned clever laziness?) Either that, or else great snobbery and corruption; which is disgusting rather than saddening.
Change is inevitable, and what we usually don't realize - also greatly accessible. Of course life is hard, life slaps you again and again, and sometimes nothing seems to work.
But maybe, these slaps are a result of man's constructed circumstances.
Constructed spaces. Constructed Time. Constructed beliefs. Constructed clinging to fate. Constructed greed and constructed blame.
Apart from the moods of Nature, apart from her fury and wrath and her beauty, there is nothing, absolutely nothing that is not within a man's reach and control, especially his own life. And yet as a collective, we seem more interested in controlling waves and trees rather than our lives. We need predictions for everything, so that we could 'construct' all our circumstances well.
Maybe, just maybe, true happiness, love and security are just right outside these constructions.
Was skimming through my last year notes from college and something about accessibility and affordability caught my attention. I hadn't' thought or written about it much back then, but somehow it makes more sense now, after an almost unimaginable dream has been lived and is over.
What exactly is accessibility? Well maybe it goes two ways - one where you are aware of something but cant reach it, or you have it but you don't know it. (Both having it and realizing it is a lucky, but perhaps a very dry coming together).
The first situation is usually known in our world as a misfortune and the latter as a privilege, maybe something you are born into as well, a birthright.
Thinking a bit back to man's starting point in life - he is born into a nude space and time - he is shorn of 'circumstances'. (What he is born into is his parents circumstances, not his). He is born on a blank slate; thus during his life, there is every opportunity for him to change where he is, what he is, what he is doing, and what he could do.
If one is born into a financially 'poor' space, that need not be his 'fate' forever. One could say it was 'destiny' or something to have been born exactly in that situation, but actually, being in that situation is a 'constructed' circumstance of his parents as well, if we go back a little; either they were also born such or did not do anything about it. It is a continuing constructed circumstance.
The first step is to be aware of this accessibility to evolution, though, and that is where clinging on to'fate' or 'destiny' happens for the most part. (Is it genuine ignorance or feigned clever laziness?) Either that, or else great snobbery and corruption; which is disgusting rather than saddening.
Change is inevitable, and what we usually don't realize - also greatly accessible. Of course life is hard, life slaps you again and again, and sometimes nothing seems to work.
But maybe, these slaps are a result of man's constructed circumstances.
Constructed spaces. Constructed Time. Constructed beliefs. Constructed clinging to fate. Constructed greed and constructed blame.
Apart from the moods of Nature, apart from her fury and wrath and her beauty, there is nothing, absolutely nothing that is not within a man's reach and control, especially his own life. And yet as a collective, we seem more interested in controlling waves and trees rather than our lives. We need predictions for everything, so that we could 'construct' all our circumstances well.
Maybe, just maybe, true happiness, love and security are just right outside these constructions.
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