If you could capture one image that represents your view of the world today, what would it be and why?

Is the world you see you? The image in our head that is created about the world upon our beliefs, is unique for each one of us. The initial step to get to know yourself better is to deeply analyze your view of the world because what you perceive around you reflects what occurs within you. 

Yet a part of it is blurred. It is blurred as I lack experience and knowledge to understand everyone and everything around me. But trying to decode the blurred part, we’re going to miss every detail that hides deeper meaning. Nothing is ever hollow.

If I was asked to describe the world in one word, I would choose competitiveness. It’s in human nature to fight with our egos or nourish them by accomplishing “quests”, striving to surpass ourselves,  peers, or some individual we have chosen. After all, it’s easy to see the competitiveness of the human, the hope in their eyes followed by their fast paced movements and the busyness. Glances are exchanged, they speak of either admiration or envy, evoking feelings of either inspiration or judgement. Competing isn’t absent from any world, personal, professional… The explanation is simply humanity. To capture their potential I’d pair the image to the Rocky Balboa theme song. Competitiveness has driven us here. The modern backdrop, the buildings, parks, cars, trains… However, we shouldn’t linger too long here, it lacks emotion and understanding. Technology? The reason why you are able to make a choice between products, brands, people offering services is our nature, competing as well as pursuing goals. And the downside comes along. We frequently lose  passion by setting excessively high standards. Comparison kills joy as it is said. We say “No, there is room for improvement!” and there is, but why not enjoy the change, the healing, the growing? We limit ourselves, but society does too.

The next thing we reckon is networking, the world is connected like a spider’s web in red. Red? Because every connection is deemed significant. Some people just met each other, some already know a few and there are lonely people. Everybody is soaked in their inner world. No person is bothered enough  to offer help to the hopeless ones, they are ignoring them or they simply are too blinded by their thoughts to notice, maybe someone will notice. 

…Socializing is crucial for human survival. One bond should always be built upon what are the qualities both of us are seeking instead of interests. Because our interests tend to change daily and our emotions too. There is then the moral and the values, a more promising way to rely on building a bond with someone. It is oftentimes mistaken and it results with divorces, broken friendships or  broken promises. 

In the way they move, dignity and pride is sensed.  Insecurities are flooding the real people, conditioned by what society wants and is expecting to see. That says it all. There is something fake, or better said suppressed. The only way to heal our wounds is to embody them, it’s the only path that leads to authenticity. If you walk through the image you notice many heads down, scrolling through their phones, totally unconscious. We are absent from the present, only notice it when it becomes our past… That is where beauty is, in those people in the spectrum who practice mindfulness.

Every change that occurs is impossible to capture. Nothing is forever and everything changes its tracks each second. The truth is that we see the world based on our current situation. The more we grow, heal, the more we expand our horizons which results in clearer future vision. Of course, we are able to take a more objective approach but subjectivity is human, speaks about each soul, mind, background, goal. Before I close the current image, I hear a song, it’s playing “Don’t stop me now” by Queen. 

Ivana Stankova