Reality Is a Choice
Jude Star
We can choose how we perceive our reality, which shapes our experiences and identity. Exploring new environments helps us break free from limiting beliefs and cultural expectations. Embracing multiple perspectives allows us to appreciate the richness of life and connect more deeply with ourselves and the world.
13 May 2025
When this discontent hits, people are often confused. Some look back to times they were happier and attempt to recapture that feeling — the classic midlife crisis. But we can never go back in life. The only way out of this crisis is forward; instead of trying to recapture past experiences we must explore what new values are emerging in us.
Jung called this process individuation. We are individuating from our social identity, finding a sense of self not based on what we have in common with others, but instead exploring what is most personally significant to us, discovering our own unique essence.
Buddhism is very clear about this. That any way that we may interpret the world or our experience is a construct or fabrication.
The goal of Buddhism is to deconstruct or see through these illusory concepts and projections and come more and more into direct experience of the world where we can see things as they are, without expectation or conceptualization.