Space as a Monochromatic Barrier

Escaping the mind-prison that you’ve created for yourself…

Illustration from Mary Gogila (Edited by the author)

We all have a lens through which we filter our reality. Whether we like it or not, we cannot take off those invisible glasses that color our world. Our views and opinions are shaped by multiple factors, like the time we live in, the place of our birth, the culture of our society, our upbringing and religion and tradition, and so on. All these aspects create our own personalized field of vision — A confined “Space”, based on factors that are out of our control.

Hence, for most of us, life remains an illusion, a prison that we can’t escape. Our decisions are mostly predetermined by the subconscious mind, which gets primed by countless external elements. For the most part, people live like zombies and our free will is not that free either … We are NOT rational creatures.

“We live imprisoned in our own bubble and we die in utter ignorance.”

“How?”, you asked.

As a child, we have all the possibilities open to us. We can be anything, but not everything. And as we pick our domain and choose our options, our space narrows down. It shrinks itself so we can focus on few important things and move ahead in that particular direction. We try to understand…