Our vision is our our world

The holidays are getting closer, and we start planning our holidays, from the destination, to the hotel we are going to book, to the daily activities that we are planning to take part in.
Our holidays are laid out in minute details, filling out page after page of our notebook. Peeking from between its pages are notes and picture that make our book look like soggy cardboard fished out of a stagnant pond.
At our destination things look a bit different, amusement parks are closed for renovation and the visiting hours of the museum have slighted shifted.
We feel aggravated, and we start complaining about things that could not be changed to fit the instructions in our bloated notebook.
We stiffen and grudgingly modify our plans. Our visits to these unplanned locations feel like the first day of kinder garden for a toddle that have been separated from his parents without previous notice.
Whatever we eat makes us feel sick. The sun gives us headaches and the chats with fellow travelers feel like a conversation with an accountant.
Rigid ice breaks to pieces and flowing water adapts to its environment.
When we stiffen, the world becomes an antagonistic place, and everything that we see, hear or taste, go though the filters of our anger and indignation.
They get sullied, denatured, and mangled, before they get presented to us.
When we relax and smile, our senses beautify the world around us and we get offered a pristine image of our surroundings.
The world is !. It is neither good, nor bad, neither unsightly, nor beautiful. We ascribe attribute to it based on our feelings as individuals or as groups and communities.

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