“You Are Here” Mobile — Gifted

The largest words around the top rim of this piece read: your life is all just a reflection of YOU  This piece was inspired by the most true but most vexing phenomenon of being human: there is nobody out there.  It’s as if everything and everyone in life is a hologram that we project our thoughts and feelings on to and react to.

Imagine a stage with an audience nearby.  On the stage is your mother.  Standing on stage next to your mother is her neighbor, her ex-husband, her boss, her high school English teacher, your father and her dentist.  You are in the audience.  One by one, you ask each person standing next to your mother, “who is my mother?  what kind of a person is she?”  Each person will have a different opinion.  Some opinions may be similar, some may be extremely different.  So here is the question:  Which one is your mother?

Well, they all are.  Each experience of your mother is true for that person AND, at the same time, there is no “your mother” out there.  She does not exist as one thing seen through the eyes of all people.  She exists as multiple things depending on who’s eyes are doing the seeing.

What I’m saying is, everything you think or have to say about life and the people in it has nothing to do with them and EVERYTHING to do with you.  You are the one who has chosen to see it/them that way.  Henry Ford might explain it like this: “whether you think you can, or you think you cannot, either way you are right”.  So practice believing the best about life and the people you come across; if you are making it all up anyways, you may as well make up good stuff.