Captain your own ship.
The view you have of the world is very interesting, and can affect the world you truly live in. I have been dealing with this recently as I have recently had a change to my world view. More recently, I experienced a change in my belief system, that has caused me to reevaluate the way I viewed the world.
Look around you. Do you live your life with an open-mind? or do you shut out new and unique thoughts because you have a fixed world view? If you have a fixated world view if what the world is you will always have an us vs them mentality. Turn that around, and the world just “is.” What does that mean?
If the world just “is”, you start to see the world as an ever changing constantly evolving sea of possibilities. You start to have compassion toward everyone and everything, everyone else just “is”, everything else just “is”, we are all just trying to make it through this ever-changing ever-evolving world we all live in. You begin to see the world for what it truly is, a world of possibilities, a world without judgement is a world of freedom.
“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions”
– Oliver Wendall Holmes
That is what true compassion is, truly looking at each and every creature in the world as something or someone that we can experience and learn from, accept, and a mystery. If you can accept this, you can accept and embrace all of the world views and lift them up.
In contrast, if you have a fixed worldview, you will spend your life constantly defending, constantly fighting, and seeking to put your worldview above others. Your view of the world is built on the premise built on your fixed world view, and you will never take off the blinders, you will never take a peek outside of the box, you will always be left in the narrow view.
How do you live your life? Do you have compassion? Do you have view the world as mysterious and ever-changing? Do you ebb and flow with the ebb and flow of the world? Or, do you have a fixed mindset? A narrow worldview? and one of defending your view?
I will describe for you the story of the two explorers.
Imagine two explorers seeking a goal or destination in the distance. There are two choices for the explorers he can choose to pilot a ship and sail across the sea to his destination. Or, the explorer can choose to get on a train sit back and get to his destination without deviation.
The first explorer chooses to pilot a ship and sail across the seas to get to his destination. He is now free to choose whichever path he desires to get to his destination. If, one day, he decides to sail to a new and exciting port he will have the freedom to choose that path. as he progresses through his journey he gets to experience new and exciting things each and every day. He is the master of his journey and the master of his destiny free to choose, and free to experience whatever he pleases.
The second explorer chooses to board a train, he now has no control over his journey. He simply bought a ticket, boarded a train took his seat and wherever the tracks take him, whenever they got there he will have no control. This scares the explorer and he closes the curtains on his train car never even taking a peek outside of the train for fear of what he may see and for fear of what he may find. He may reach his destination, however he is not the master of his fate, he is not the master of his destiny and he has lost all of his control and simply shuts out the world and sits quietly.
Which would you choose? Would you choose the ship? Would you choose the train? The ship may be a wild ride filled with waves, wind, rain, and new experiences. But I can guarantee one thing, the ship would be much more interesting than the boredom and and stupefying haze that would be the traincar.
As for me, I choose to pilot a ship.