Cultural Creativity Articles

It depends on where you’re looking

There are so many different worlds within this one world, this ‘real’ world, we ALL share and call home.

There’s my world, for one. And your world, for two. And you or I can both know the experience of Billy over there and visit his world through empathy, for three.

And we can go online and have the opportunity to visit millions of different worlds, each different from the next.

We can open a book and visit the world an author is creating with us, and we can turn on our screen and watch different world’s others have created for us.

Everyone around me is a character.

I can experience the characters of my world in the same way I experience characters in fiction. I can care for them, perhaps even love them, but in the end, I can only be a watcher of their story. I am a viewer of their narrative, their plot line, and the archetypes they have chosen to embrace and act out.

The only character within my power is my own.

I do not have to allow anything or anyone outside of me to dictate my reality. I have a choice as to what character I play, and the type of story I reside in. I get to create this. In my story, I get to be in choice, deciding who I want to be and what I want to do, but like when I am watching TV or reading a book, the other characters that live in my story are not mine to control. I only get to decide what the hero does, I only get to decide what I do.

They are our relationships built on mutual trust and respect.

They are our relationships in which worries subside over being taken advantage of, or of needing to control.

They are our relationships where both parties act with confidence and ease.

They are our relationships in which games are not played, and expectations and needs are communicated clearly.

These are our relationships of integrity. They are our connections where we express and share without reservation.

Like any game, if you don’t actively participate in it, you will not be a player.

If you can see money as a game, you can understand the importance of playing with money; of learning to flow with debit and credit.

Like in any game, it’s important to your success as a player to maintain a positive attitude, regardless of where you are in your flow. Whether in debit or credit, your job as a player is to ensure you are always doing your best while in the game.