What is Reality?

Nowadays, everyone seems to be trying to escape something. Most of the time, it’s the simple fact that they are trying to escape reality. Let me tell you, it’s near impossible to do and it’s not really worth it.

 

You can’t really fully ESCAPE reality. It will always come from behind you and bite you in the ass. You can temporarily, but still, is it worth it? Yeah, sometimes, depending on how you do it and what you do/how you see escaping it. But at the same time, you always come back to reality. So is it worth a temporary escape? Or should I bring up the big question of, “What is Reality?”

 

If every now and then, you go out and drink with friends, that’s fine, as long as you don’t become an alcoholic. Or if you do some light drug like marijuana from time to time, again, just don’t get that mental addiction that you always need weed to get away because reality sucks.

 

But what IS reality? What is real? Reality, I believe, is what you make it. It’s all about perception and how you take things. If you see things as bad, then to you, the reality of it is bad. Vice versa, if you see it as good, the reality is good. Isn’t that perception? So, to sum that up, reality is how you perceive it to be.

 

So why can’t everything always be taken with a grain of salt and reality is just good? What if you were to take bad situations, see the good in them, and make everything positive in some light? Doesn’t that change how you feel, and maybe then, you won’t want to always escape.

 

Oh that’s right. It’s called happiness.

 

Now I’m not saying to never go out and have a good time with friends, because well, sometimes it’s a nice change. But if you don’t have to resort to being under the influence to have a good time, then why do it ALL the time? Are you trying to impress people?

 

WHO GIVES A DAMN WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK!!

 

It’s your life; it’s your perception. Your reality of life could be totally different and be good. Why surround yourself with people who are negative all the time, or even at all? If you can just shift your mind that you want happiness and inner peace at all times, why get around downers? There is NO good reason to do so.

 

If you don’t like how something is unfolding, change YOUR vision. See the brighter side of life. It’s YOUR perception. If you hate where you’re at in life, change it! It’s YOUR reality. If your heart gets broken, it’s because you let it, it’s YOUR perception. If you are getting angry, that’s YOUR reality telling you that something is angering you.

 

So what IS reality? To sum it all up, it’s what YOU believe to be real. YOU control yourself and how you feel/see things at all times, so why not make life positive? Reality is what YOU make it, only YOU determine YOUR perception of things.

 

Only YOU control YOU. Be the best YOU, that YOU can be. Be someone that YOU are proud of. Stand tall because YOU hold your own perception of YOUR reality. Be who YOU WANT to be. 

Carpe Diem Creando

I touched on this briefly before closing out Manic Monday but I feel it needs more than a slight brushing. So today is a motivation day; so put on your inspiration undies and jump into the pool of “getting shit done” folks ‘cause you’re going on the joy ride of “make life your $5 whore” today. We’re talking about: Carpe Diem Creando.

 

Again, what it means is “Seize the day by creating”. A lot of you Negative Nancy’s are out there saying, “I’m not creative”. Well, not with that attitude you’re not. It doesn’t have to mean, create art, or create something written, or create music… no. It can mean just create a better life for you or those around you. Hell, create a better life for someone else. Just create! This world is slowly slipping into the monotonous crap because of nobody being able to create anymore. We are losing our originality as a race of humans because no one is creating anymore. We have lost touch with that part of our reality and it shows.

 

Movies are becoming sequels, and sequels… well they suck. Very few are good, but the majority are not good. Music is all about the same thing over and over and over again. Cars are all starting to look the same as they did before.

 

It’s all because no one is creating.

 

The job market sucks. The economy sucks. All the crap going on in the Nation’s Capitol SUCKS!

 

Why? NO ONE IS CREATING! No one wants change anymore? And I’m not talking the Obama campaign slogan “Change”, I man real, straight, everyone can see it, hear it, smell it, taste it, feel it- CHANGE! (Can I get an amen?)

 

If someone were to just stand up and say, I have an idea. Let’s create this… Yeah, it probably won’t change the economy, the job market, etc. but it will start a snowball. The more people creating, more and more people will create. Then the big changes will happen. It’s how shit happens in this world. It all starts with one person. ONE single voice is heard, and the WORLD shifts at everyone’s feet.

 

All because one person thought “Carpe Diem Creando”.

 

Whether you take it as creating like creating a piece of art, creating as in writing, or simply creating a better life by getting a raise, promotion, new job, etc. just create.

 

My dare to you is just starting something. It doesn’t have to be big, but watch the reaction; the chain if you will. You never know, you could be that one person who shifts the entire world.