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It's All Invented...
What makes the New Year new?
Human beings DECLARING it new -that's what makes it new. You and I agree with the story that somehow January 1 every year is new.
We seldom stop to think about it -but EVERYTHING in society is invented and created by us humans. Someone had an idea and then tells another. That person agrees and then the two of them spread the story to the rest of the tribe. Pretty soon we believe things like the world is flat and you'll fall off the edge. Then we changed that to the world is round. What is round? Round is something made-up to describe a shape. And on and on it goes.
The power in knowing that everything's invented is that you start to look at the world in a wonderful mystic sort of way. The possibility springs to life that you and I could actually INVENT our own lives and create a new ending for humanity.
Why not?
My son wants to go to Stanford and study psychology there. One of his acquaintences urged him to have a more "realistic" goal in mind. "Who says what's realistic?" he asked. "And why should I accept their view of what's real?"
Sometimes our assessments of what's so limit us and we make choices based on these assessments. Nothing's wrong with the whole process and I'm not even suggesting that anything's wrong with how we made everything up either. It's just a distinction that gives us some possibility. Possibility to create.
As the end of the year draws near let this realization that all is invented rumble around inside you as you start to speculate on what you want to create in 2012.
I know I am!

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