I find more and more that life these days seems more and more intent on pushing one to be more predictable, less individual, more conformist, less creative, more GREY, and yes, creativity and innovation are there, its just as though the world and not ourselves are defining the parameters within which the creativity and innovation should occur, instead of us. Sure we come up with an idea, its ours, mine, yours, but the context within which we find ourselves, which impacts on our understanding, fathoming of any ‘creative’ ‘innovative’ idea, to some degree is already predefined… And so, we become more GREY, even as some of us struggle to stay individualistic, true to ourselves, it becomes almost impossible by virtue of our context, to some degree at least, so be aware that striving, fighting for your individualism needs to take account of the ‘context’ within which you live because much of it is not of your creating, so fight harder, against the world… to be yourself in it!!
I get that there are 'different' types of Christians in the world, and indeed that it takes all types of people, Christian and otherwise to make the world, I myself don't understand why people put so much effort into trying to convert 'other' religions to their own because I dont think religion (or faith) defines a persons character, or implies some form or depth of integrity... I just don't get it, its not to say I'm right or wrong, but if we focussed more on living better lives, giving more, being more empathetic, more gracious in defeat, more sharing in victory and more loving then I'm convinced that we'll be better people and the world, in some incremental way would be a better place, whatever faith we practice! The piece above, I did purely to convey that at times it takes a bit of delivry to create the best angels...not always, but battles and wars are far from fairytales and love poems...
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