We believe in so many things that pertain to life. Different rules, thoughts, feelings, and intuitions come to us because of the way we have structured reality in our minds.
As a whole we all agree on, what we call, factual beliefs. Things such as gravity or oxygen, and hot or cold, and up or down. And these are things we know as truths.
But there are many conflicting beliefs as well. Some believe in creation stories, others do not. Some believe in their abilities, others do not. What we perceive as good or bad, others do not. To certain groups there is a single God, to certain others there are many, or none.
These beliefs alter the way we interact with the world. We see, label and consolidate experiences with our outside environment based on structured belief patterns we have created over time.
These beliefs come from family, friends, and interactions with our environments. If we are raised in a household that does not eat animal products then we are prone to think this is the correct way of eating. Different people in different situations might eat lots of animal products because of where they live or the causing effects of their environment.
Neither can be truly said to be right or wrong. They are really just different ways of connecting and relating to your world. Diverse ways of solidifying judgments to your nature and in turn learning how to express them outwardly.
Often times it is our childhood that cements these beliefs in to our livelihood and, to a certain degree, dictate our reactions and responses to the surroundings. Causing convinced thoughts and emotions to come to the table when particular circumstances arise.
These ingrained beliefs can be hard to even realize are there, let alone know the causation. We believe intuitively that we need to react and behave in a specific way to create the right reply to make sure the world knows what type of person we believe ourselves to perceive.
Once in a while though, we are brought into positions that cause us to question, doubt, or come to acknowledge a certain belief or way of thinking. Producing a restructuring of old belief patterns that now create a new definition of ourselves we will choose to live by.
These new personal constitutions can create new directions of living and organizing our behaviors in life to feel and be recognized as another person from what we once were. These can be happy and profound steps to a new you, or a questioning set of thoughts related to how things are now different.
Either way can send us in a stir of intercommunication of long or short interactions with the people around us. Revising the way they see and connect with us, while also reshaping our exchanges and interpretations with them.
Sometimes we feel obliged to voice these new expressions in an attempt to add what we might perceive as value to the people and world around us. This can help add subject matter to the new ways we think, maybe even creating new definitions and patterns for another.
This can help us deepen connections with other people. Helping us feel more harmonious with the events that are contained around us.
But other times, this can stiffen or dampen connections with other circumstances in our once natural environment. Because understanding another way of interpretation of how the world spins is often times nearly impossible, if not arduous to say the least.
It can be hard though, to not cling so tightly to the past and the form of how we have seen things work. Or to not be able to comprehend how someone doesn't now take our perspective and new understanding with truth and utter faith.
We have come to believe in life around us through experiences and interactions. We have altered beliefs because of new experiences and interactions.
But the truth is that neither is right or wrong. They are all ways of learning and living that create a certain set of rules and clarity for that individual.
Expressing these beliefs is our right as a civilized human species. The ways in which we express cultures, lifestyles, and language are all just interpretations of specific ways of living.
It can be hard to not understand why people, places, and things are so different from how you think or once thought. But we must realize that it is only an interpretation of the world and orders from a certain perspective and nothing is completely valid as truth and fact, everything can come into question at some point. EVERYTHING!
So let us not grasp so tightly to the way we think things are, as to not question what we may think of as truth. Causing to large of a space to be able to recognize the way we think and the patterns that once were. And shall we not subject others to one way of thinking that is true for us, without recognizing an alternate way of learning and bridging with the world and all the different versions of truth that it can contain.
Are beliefs to be agreed upon so the world can be tunnel visioned for a specific future and outcome that is more certain because of solidarity of the species? Or are we to live differently and benevolently question all rules and beliefs, trying to create new and equivalent ways of co-creating the universe?
-RA BAR
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