My worldview is a living document
So is yours.
Imagine that the first time you had an experience, it gets written in an online document. Everything you felt was recorded. Then the document expands to include every decision you make, and the blocks of beliefs and assumptions those decisions are built on.
Imagine those blocks were used to make a platform. And you have to walk on that platform. Speak from that platform. Live on that platform. And for some reasons, no one goes back to check if those blocks are credible enough to carry your weight the way it did in the past.
Maybe we need not imagine it. Why imagine when we live it out daily.
Worldviews are living documents. They will always be edited, added to, and removed from. They will be altered constantly. They are meant to.
I get better as I keep reconsidering my perception of reality and altering my stand based on fresh insights. Fresh insights doesn’t have to mean new insights; it might be an old wisdom looked at in a way I hadn’t before.
The more certain I am that how I see reality is the most correct, the more likely there is an untested assumption or folly lurking somewhere close.
And the more I effect these tiny changes, the more different I become. I love to change my opinions about things all the time. I like to review old decisions and check the assumptions that led to them. I try to get as close as I can to what’s useful and real.
This is a good thing, but not for everyone. Living this way may be more challenging for the people around you than it is for you.
Does this story feel familiar?
People get close to you and fall in love with a version of you they know now. As your worldview changes, some of those people try to hold on to the version of you they met. And they start grieving the loss of that version. Grief shows up in many ways. From criticising the new, to insisting on the old.
Just as no one steps into the same stream twice, we are never the same person when we keep editing how we see the world.
How we see the world influences what we do in the world. It influences the problems we choose to solve, the people we choose to love, and how we live. The least we can do is to pay attention to the little script running under the hood.
Maybe, the world becomes better from this simple life-long activity. At least, our worlds will.