Guidelines

Architecture is driving the discussion today, the beautiful lines of a glass building, provides the backdrop.

Each line in this photo is a guideline for the glass façade, it takes the eyes of the viewer to the top, whilst in the real world it provides the structure for the building.

In the world around us, regardless where you look, regardless where you travel to, guidelines are presented to you. The freedom that we all think we enjoy is actually framed by so many rules and regulations, that potentially we can never talk about freedom.

Each guideline, whether given to you by your parent, by your culture, gender, or any type of group that you associate yourself with, is in fact governing your every move.

Have a think, to how many groups, how many teams, interests do you belong to? How many rules are there around you? Shaping you? Moulding you? From the colour of your toothpaste, down to the convention between humans of what the colour spectrum shades are. The fact that you can refer to the fractal of light as a particular colour has been determined long ago. The fact that foods are what we consume has been decided and passed down many millennia ago. And if we think back to billions of years ago, the fact that this planet is as is, it have been determined by the forces of the universe coalescing mass into the tiniest of particles, so that billions of years later YOU can thing you are free.

What are the guidelines that govern your life? What is it so important in this world that pride, ego, self-absorption, self-interest should step in and govern your interactions? Why are humans so precious about their individuality? In a world governed by so many other forces, are you not the tiniest particle, that perhaps you do not even matter?

Are you actually matter? Well not really, you are just energy that imagines itself as matter, and what a grand imagination that is. YOU function on basis of guidelines set in motion by your DNA encoded by the same particles and forces that makes the universe exist, so are you not a child of the universe? Are you not a star seed?

What boundaries are there, that we can not break down, adapt, reshape, re-imagine?

Do you think you are bound by something?

Do you think your reality today is the only reality that exists?

Do you think that how you live today is the only way to live?

Do you think that your current situation is the only way of being available to you?

What if the boundaries were there just to keep you contained?

What if you were able to tap into the hidden opportunities, that are just that tiny bit out of your reach, and yet which you could harness and bring closer to you?

How would your future look like?

Time to take out your diary and take some notes when answering the questions.

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