Amobi Emeka
Member
Two men stand at the same bus stop. The bus is forty minutes late.
The first man hisses, checks his watch and mutters that nothing ever works
.
The second shrugs, buys groundnuts from the woman by the roadside and starts talking to the man beside him. By the time the bus arrives, he has a new business contact.
Same bus. Same delay. Same heat.
Different worldview.
A worldview is the pair of glasses you see life through. It is what you believe about how the world works, who you are in it, what is right and what is possible.
Most of us never chose ours. We inherited it. From our parents. From our church or mosque. From our street, our school, the first boss who shouted at us.
Because we never chose it, we rarely notice we are wearing it.
That is the danger.
Your worldview decides what you see before you even look. If you believe the world is against you, every closed door is proof. If you believe effort pays, a closed door is a puzzle. If you believe money corrupts, you will turn down every chance to make it and call it humility.
It shows up in small places. How you treat the cleaner. Whether you return extra change. How you raise your children. Whether you save or spend. Whether you trust a stranger or assume he is up to something.
Watch any queue.
One person waits his turn. Another edges forward, slips in beside a friend and pretends not to see the line.
The first expects the system to treat him fairly, so he waits. The second learned long ago that if you don't push, you lose.
Neither is foolish. They are wearing different glasses.
So what do you do?
Take your glasses off once in a while. Look at them. Ask: where did this belief come from? Does it still serve me? Is it even true?
You don't have to throw them away. Some of what you inherited is gold. But some of it is a crack in the lens that you stopped noticing years ago.
Clean them. Adjust them. Put them back on and look again.
The world may not change.
But what you see will.
Your Co-Traveler,
Mister Maple
The first man hisses, checks his watch and mutters that nothing ever works
.
The second shrugs, buys groundnuts from the woman by the roadside and starts talking to the man beside him. By the time the bus arrives, he has a new business contact.
Same bus. Same delay. Same heat.
Different worldview.
A worldview is the pair of glasses you see life through. It is what you believe about how the world works, who you are in it, what is right and what is possible.
Most of us never chose ours. We inherited it. From our parents. From our church or mosque. From our street, our school, the first boss who shouted at us.
Because we never chose it, we rarely notice we are wearing it.
That is the danger.
Your worldview decides what you see before you even look. If you believe the world is against you, every closed door is proof. If you believe effort pays, a closed door is a puzzle. If you believe money corrupts, you will turn down every chance to make it and call it humility.
It shows up in small places. How you treat the cleaner. Whether you return extra change. How you raise your children. Whether you save or spend. Whether you trust a stranger or assume he is up to something.
Watch any queue.
One person waits his turn. Another edges forward, slips in beside a friend and pretends not to see the line.
The first expects the system to treat him fairly, so he waits. The second learned long ago that if you don't push, you lose.
Neither is foolish. They are wearing different glasses.
So what do you do?
Take your glasses off once in a while. Look at them. Ask: where did this belief come from? Does it still serve me? Is it even true?
You don't have to throw them away. Some of what you inherited is gold. But some of it is a crack in the lens that you stopped noticing years ago.
Clean them. Adjust them. Put them back on and look again.
The world may not change.
But what you see will.
Your Co-Traveler,
Mister Maple