Would you rather see the world as it is or the world as you want it to be?

Your tag “perspective” is your answer. There is no one world as it is—that’s determined individually and uniquely by how each human being, government, country, culture, poet, writer, filmmaker, etc. perceives/experiences/explains it. Likewise, creating a world as we want it to be is also individually and uniquely—not globally. As for myself, I accept all that love about MY world (i.e., my life) as it is, and strive toward improving it however I wish and am able.

I’d like to show you the world in my eyes, that’s all there is…

As it is. It keeps me alert to danger.

As human beings we have to try to grasp the realities of the present while seeing the possibilities for the future.

Or, as Brian Aldiss put it, “I think therefore I am, I dream therefore I become”.

You can interact with the world in different ways. You don’t have to be a bystander. You can interact through art for example and re-create the world in a unique and personal way.

We need to see the world as it is so we know where to start changing it.

Nothing more than you can touch now, that’s all there is…

Allowing yourself to be oblivious to reality allows things like the Holocaust to occur. As distasteful as things may be, we need to keep our eyes and ears open and see what is really there. Only then can we at least try to fight against injustice and discrimination.

One must do both.

Obviously idealism could be considered one of my faults.

But seeing the world for how it really is is the critical to establish practical goals for it.

The political world? The physical world?

I don’t think that we are programed to see the world as it really exists. We are programed to survive and navigate. We are not programed to see or understand raw truth. If we ever come in contact with truth then we would not recognize or understand it.

I’m a realist , eyes wide open.Walk softly but carry a big stick.haha

I have always thought it was important to stay informed and learn as much as possible about the world and to try as much as I can to see it without the filter of personal bias.

But the more I learn about people and the things they do to each other and the things that have happened and are happening right now, the more I wish that none of this was real and that we would all just disappear completely. Especially in the last two months my worldview has been tending heavily toward misanthropy. And now, more than ever before in my life, I feel completely powerless to change the things I don’t like about the world.

I wonder if it wouldn’t be more profitable to just close my eyes and ears and stop paying attention, since paying attention hasn’t done me any good so far. It doesn’t seem to have made me a better person, anyway.