Craters of Improvement. We seek like-minded people. It feels good to get validating and to share similar ideas. We develop a tribe of sorts. But not a false tribe. As an example, your co-workers are a forced tribe.
Your co-workers are constructed of people who meet the business needs and not yours. That is what business does. This is not malevolent it is ambivalent to those needs other than the goal of the business. You are set in a situation that is not of your own – although you likely actively sought the job.
Your Neighbors, Your Choices
There is an upside to not choosing your neighbors or your coworkers. You are getting the diversification of thought and a broadening of experience.
People, when given the choice, will choose to associate with people of similar demeanor and desires. As a relative said to me one day, “It’s good to go visit the home town, you don’t need to prove anything to anybody, they know who you are.”
This comb nation of forced selection, as in work, and the choices made in community and friends can catalyze a larger experience.
The Two Big Groupings
Think of it this way. Events can be broken into two large groups, the things that happen to you and things that you choose. The way you handle the impact can define the crater of that impact. Or to extend this line of thought. Instead of a meteorite and a crater, a space capsule landing via parachute with the results of experiments. Craters of Improvement.
Change is inevitable. We cannot escape the craters of life. We can adjust, and sometimes learn from the information we get in a soft touchdown of a capsule. But the change is coming.
Choices when the can be made, yes, do that. You have to flow understanding change is not always about big breakthroughs. Simple choices often have the longest results.
The message is what tribe have you chosen; does that tribe you have chosen provide what you desire? What do you need? Or is it detrimental to the person you need to be? Does your artificially constructed work environment serve more than the purpose of providing food for your cakehole? Can it uplift!
These are questions that lead to an active choice life and not a “Life is happening to me.” Is the incoming, the impending experience, your choice, and will it be a capsule of information or a crater.
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KRIS WILDER
Kris Wilder is a martial artist based in Seattle Washington. He has authored many martial art books, including the classic, The Way of Kata. Making no apologies for his obsession of Football he can be found telling any who will listen about the nuances of the Canadian Football League.
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