Day 17: Defining a new present

So maybe there are a few special people who can live in the world as if a big hope has already been realized, which is a pretty amazing and beautiful thing.  But then it also occurs to me that there are also a few special folks who are brave enough to point out that it’s not just that the world can be different than we think it is; it’s that the world actually is different than we think it is.  Already.  The framework we’ve placed around our experience is not correct.  I’m thinking about people like Darwin and Galileo.  People who took things we were so certain of and turned them inside out. 

It sounds like a really cool thing when you’re talking about science, but when it’s your heart, it hurts.  It can even cause a soul to cast dispersion toward hope.  Hypothetically speaking, of course.

Even if we can’t conceive of it, sometimes our certainty, our perspective of reality, is skewed.  Often it is so off-base that it causes us to at best stall out in our development and at worst hurt someone else.  The world does not actually spin around us, and once we see that, we can’t un-see it.  But until we see that, we can’t conceive of it, either.  At least most of us can’t.  There are a few special folks who can, though, and we are usually better off for their honest assessment of the way things are, even if it might sting a bit to get there.