Creating a Masterpiece
Perception vs. Reality
The marathoner mind will defeat David Goggins any day.
It will draw you into the emotional recesses of your brain to unveil all that is imperfect and ungovernable with its devilish charm.
In extreme cases, an existential crisis occurs. Others battle chronic anxiety and depression in search of a cure for the dis-ease of the brain.
The truth is, the mind will commit many injustices against you throughout your lifespan. It will give you every reason to throw the towel after ringing you inside out.
Deficiencies will be found where there are none. Love and grief will make your fiery heart turn cold.
You may look to the heavens and ask, “Why me?”
Your cruel fate will be no match for your merit. The pain will feel unfathomable.
In some cases, the mind will even attempt to convince you that life is not worth living. Would you like some cheese with that baloney?
We are all given a blank canvas. Some of our canvases are punctured before we can fashion our reality. Other canvases have finger marks or are virtually ultraclean.
How we choose to paint the canvas is predicated on our individual templates. Life is a whirlwind of random events to which we attach our own unique meaning.
Your perception will shape your choice of colours or lack thereof. Yet, perception is incongruent with reality.
Our unique experiences and biology control our perception of the world which can be subject to internal biases.
The good news is that perception mustn’t remain fixed. We can alter our crooked understanding of the world and our relationship to it. We can repaint our canvas.
The incentive for repainting our canvas is not to erase the darkness of our past but rather to recreate our present. It is to take control of the narrative.
It is to invent the masterpiece that is you.
