Perspective Paradigm-The Other side of the Looking Glass

I always had an interest in how different people of all races, beliefs, and ethnicity's have come to be . How people can have such polarizing thoughts or perspectives from one another. Individuality is the forefront that encourages the separation from one person to another . Different cultures and dynamics that families have influence the beliefs and behaviors children develop that continue the mindset of generations before them, or allows them to use it as a foundation to further advance themselves as they experience life. It is also through influence that can bread competition, arrogance and greed.

We are born with and brought into this world as beautiful, loving and soulful beings able to experience everything this existence has to offer. But we can also engage in a mindset of selfishness and conceit-where we can use others as a means for our own personal gain and achievements. Somehow we have come to accept the latter of qualities for influence or idolize those who emulate those trait. We have seen it time and time again in social media where instant gratification feeds into this unhealthy perspective of an "influencer".

It is extremely foreign to me how enslaved some of us have become to the perspectives of others. How we can use that ideology as a way to transform our own reality-trying to fit an image that no longer becomes our own.

We are mortal creatures and interconnected at the core. My own transformation of what I identify as "myself" has changed so drastically as I've grown and has allowed me to understand lives outside of my own. Whether that has been through reading books that are from someone else's perspective, listening to or watching to news that is covered globally, or even coming to understanding my past and letting go of former beliefs that I've held onto about myself and others.

We are such observant creatures, where "monkey see, monkey do" is a common term in households, saying how some people mimic others so that they themselves can achieve the same outcome without understanding the reasoning or work that goes on behind it. Also as children, we can nurture a very selfish habit which can transfer to a life surrounding a "me me me" mentality. Where that mentality is almost sensationalized through this hierarchy that we see time and time again on social media.

And while technology and the advancements of how we can communicate with each other is incredible, I have seen more and more people succumb to the "monkey see, monkey do; me me me" mentality. It's these basic core lessons that need to be learned early on so that collectively we can grow and evolve as a species. And the discussions that need to take place in a family fail as people gravitate towards talking on a screen instead of with each other. Phones have replaced dinner conversations at a tables for dialogs that can be traced back by a button on a key board.

For a long time, I have struggled with this reality. Both with wanting to be seen and desired through instant gratification and by disconnecting myself from social media and seeing how diluted some people have become. Numb to an illusory system.

Through the experiences that I've had in my life and disconnecting myself from the materialist framework of our society, I've come to realize that we all are the same. Humans are one of many species that exists on the planet and we've created such a strange way to interact with each other and our environment that it's hard not to take things personally or just to live in a stagnant mindset that the reality you experience is the same as everyone else.

We are all a point of awareness and consciousness that exist, with no decisive linear timeline. We all share emotions that directly connect us to each other, while not all experiences are the same. Choosing to separate ourselves from one another is hiding from the innate truth that we are all one. Regardless of dogmas and beliefs, human beings are one species that pertain to a much larger consciousness than we are aware of.

Nothing can be certain to say that any one was in inherently "wrong" or "right". But I do believe that we are suppose to use our own individuality to bring collective ideas and thoughts to the forefront to seek truth and transformation. Instead of isolating ourselves through illusory perceptions.