In other words, why is it that some people only see the world as it is, and not how it could be?Why is it that some people only see the world as it is, and not how it could be?
Well I think the problem is the fact that most people see the world ONLY how it could be, instead of actually facing the world as IT IS. It would be a good starting point in order to get there, to some kind of a ';better world';.Why is it that some people only see the world as it is, and not how it could be?
I would love to see the world through a child's eyes, but it's not as easy as it sounds when you know the reality of life.
Actually, I think you have it all backwards. Children actually see the world as it is and it is the adults that impose their long list of beliefs and wishes on them to force children to see things differently.
Seeing the world as it could be is a hideous curse. It traps you into an idealism that is often fatal and becomes corrupted by the compromises made along the way when you are confronted with the hard reality that the world is just not capable of being what you might wish it to be. Why is this? The reason why is that wishes and beliefs never truly take the world as it is into account. That means that any means to the belief or wish is flawed by not being based on what is. Being flawed, you stumble into one contradiction after another.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't want a better world. I'm just saying that all wishes, desires, and beliefs have to be grounded in what you have and not what you want.
Selene, There are many people who live and dye
within a fifty mile radius of the home, and have never
known the world any other way.
A child may be innocent but not ignorant.
Many do see the world as it is, but can do
nothing to change the way you would like it to be. %26lt;}:-})
Children understand reality perfectly.
Adults do not.
Children are fresh from their source (however you wish to define that) and they haven't learned to digest the corrupted messages of the media or learned how to be stressed. They just feel life out simply with their perceptions and they understand that without all the extra crap that adults feel life is amazingly wonderous. Adults get sucked up into the outer world and believe in what they see more then what they feel in their hearts. Children understand that the inner world creates the outer world :)
';The obvious lesson . . . . is that the first step to the knowledge of the highest divine symbol of the wonder and mystery of life is in the recognition of the monstrous nature of life and it's glory in that character: the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think ---- and their name is legion---that they know how the universe could have been better than it is, how it would have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without life, are unfit for illumination. Or those who think---as do many---';Let me first correct society, then get around to myself'; are barred from even the outer gate of the mansion of God's peace. All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that no one can do who has not himself learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is.';
----Joseph Campbell
You are seeing the world as you want to see it. This will change I think . . . .hang in there
Your question is very apropo to todays politics. The people who see the world as it is are called conservative republicans. The people who ask what it could be are called liberal democrates. The republicans believe in fiscal responsibility, but the dems will take all your tax dollars and squander them on their friends in the banking business, and take their cut of course. Isn't life simple?
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