The alchemy of choice is fascinating; what makes one person become a career criminal and another fear to even steal a penny? Yes it has a lot to do with influences of other minds as one grows up but it is also about strength and weakness of character and that comes from many places; including genetics, life experiences and drugs. Society itself has a myriad of pathways to weave through but all seem geared to one aim; to create capital for ourselves and that limits certain creative avenues immediately. So streamlined are the ways of thinking these days I have great empathy for people who get to stage where they think we are set up from birth.
Yet there is always a part of us that stretches the boundaries. It is that part that wants a career change when we hit forty; that part of us that gets bored; that part of us that sees prison bars in the streets of a city or in the density of the trees in a forest. It is the side of us that is unhappy but doesn’t know why, that wants to achieve something different, that imagines things are not as they are.
Its the part of us that makes for revolutions and its resonance is felt everywhere all the time because the inner human being is always in a state of rebellion.