Perspective, Power, & Value
Perspective.
We all have it. No matter if you're a manic depressive with multiple personalities, or a happy adult, with a strong sense of self.
The latter being the more desirable to most.
However... Life, as we know it, will find it's ironic clutches of self-deprecation wrapped all around you, your reality, and your perspective at some point, if not already. I'm sure some have already traversed this (seemingly) proprietary-to-self adversity. We who have, can verify, you face a moral and ethical dilemma within your soul and mind in these times. To overcome a task in life, we are always told to prepare.
Prepare.
How do we prepare for a situation so deep within? How does a person achieve not only the ego to disregard emotions over a belief, but also the integrity to challenge oneself.
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My belief, which is scary... is retrospection. You see, retrospection is more of an ability in my mind than a style of sequenced ideas. To define that in a more digestible manner; Idea's that lead to a change in your thought's and emotions ABOUT a past-tense situation. Plainly, that is retrospection. However not in the way I use the word. When I say it, I mean the ability to see someone else, or something not relative to your normal, or heard something out of the ordinary, and it lead you to a creed.
A holy grail. A belief within you so strong that calling it a belief is an understatement. It becomes a practice that separates families, long time friends, forcing a change in the true reality and universe one gets to observe.
The reason I believe retrospection is the key to worthy being and worthy ideals, is FAILURE.
Failure is always on peoples minds around this earth. Whether being a CEO fantasizing of competition toppling to advance market dominance, the janitor, pushing a mop daily in the building, cleaning restrooms, emptying trash, or the homeless man waiting to ask the man who works in the skyscraper if he could have some money to eat.
Failure is a thing that in this case, would accrue to different values.
Value.
Upon examination of our example, and with the value of failure in mind, we can safely say, failure is equally amongst the people found to be similar. The ability to be happy. To avoid or overcome sadness.
Growing up in a small town, like I did, everyone knows everyone right? That's what they always say. But who are they? See, this is the power of words, sequence, and intent. Which leads me to my true subject here. POWER.
The value of power held by the statement: In a small town, everybody knows everybody. A statement we accept at face value. Just like the people in a small town nowadays, or for as long as I can remember.
The truth is, in a small town, a grown man, grown woman, all the way to a child, can present to an outsider an idea of somebody, or something else, in a way that one couldn't possibly construed as a lie, or even an exaggeration. But because of the power of words and language, us, as a species and of the American media idea of reality, will commit to that presentation through instinct, not analyzing the grand scheme.
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