In day-to-day life, we usually fail to distinguish between what actually happened and what we make it mean. We collapse the two as if it were “the truth.” This is very dangerous since the “meaning” part of it is our own invention and is unique to us. Furthermore, our life experiences are generally programmed into our mind to generate “meaning” from events in a fairly automatic fashion. The result is, our experience of life becomes based on meanings that are programmed from the sequence of life events that preceded this moment; in other words, our experience is generated in a programmed fashion and not under our control. It leaves no room for our creativity or vitality in its preprogrammed responses.
However, if we strip away the “meaning” we have generated programmatically, we are left with only what actually took place and have space left to decide how to deal with what happened in the way that most serves the future we are intent on creating. Further, we can actually evaluate many possible meanings and make a choice of one that provides us the most satisfaction and possibility.
- learnings from landmark
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