Final week of Seattle.
As I wrap up my this portion of my journey, I find myself reflecting on what I’ve learned here, the meaning of this cumulative experience.
I feel that in life, you can find goodness wherever you look, or badness. In part, it depends on what you expect to find, what you want to find. What you intend to hold on to and allow to “color” your reality. I’m sure I’ve had less-than-civil experiences, because life is not all of one thing or other, it is an amalgamation of all that exists. But I find that what I take away, are things that build my personal version of reality, one made of positive expansion and challenges that built me up stronger, so that I don’t think of my experience here in any way as being filled with negativity. What I remember are the good things, and the things that made me stronger.
I think that’s what Seattle gave me. An experience that showed me how to build personal perspective in a way that it can become an actual reality, because what is reality, but a complete visceral perception of what “is?” We have so much more control over our lives than we often give ourselves permission to believe. I can’t necessarily dictate what other people or the objective, collective world does, but I can control how I perceive it, my reactions to it, and where I position myself. Just like in basketball, I can’t dictate where the ball will fall, but I can put myself in the right position to get the rebound. Knowing this, it’s a matter of building things right, and not getting hung up so much on the result, as this is a continually evolving process that is changing my world within as it changes the world without.
Learn from the past, build for the future, but do all the necessary work in the present. Most importantly, enjoy every moment.