Artificial Power

Once again, I had an epiphany while I was exercising. All power is artificial. People and things are only as important and valuable as the world allows them to be. I don’t mean in the spiritual, every life has meaning, every person has value kind of way. I mean in the Time Magazine most powerful people kind of way. It’s all temporary. There are very few things in this world that have a value that wasn’t given to them by the general populace. It’s all a big lie we tell ourselves, that we have power or that someone else has power over us. You are the only one in charge of what happens in your life. Some magazine might say Donald Trump is one of the most powerful men in the world but he can’t tell me what to do so in my life he really isn’t powerful at all. Many people get jealous or envious of others who seem to have it all. I’m really considering downsizing, I don’t need a big house or all the best stuff. I think from now on I’m only going to keep the things in my life that make it better.