Is the World for You or Against You?

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"BUT I think there's an even more important decision you'll make in life.
It's ONE huge decision... and it's a mindset question.
That question is: IS THE WORLD FOR YOU OR AGAINST YOU?" 
-Case Kenny, "New Mindset, Who Dis?" post from 8 October 2021

    You know, I pondered this question a lot in the hours I waited for my laundry to be done. I read the whole post in an e-mail. Basically, you need to know the answer to this question because it will be able to change your perception of your reality. It is a simple dichotomy. Either the world is for you, so everything becomes a lesson or opportunity that encourages you to grow and change into something better; or the world is against you, so everything becomes a trial or a challenge that discourages your growth and change. It is probably not the sort of thing I should be trying to answer in the middle of the night as I hear the washer and dryer churn, but I do anyway. 

    For the longest time, I used to think the world was against me. I mean, why wouldn't it be? I was just a blimp of existence on a cosmic game of chance. Who cares what happens to me or what I do to try and establish my significance? In the grand scheme of everything, it didn't matter if I became famous or not, or if I was generous or not, or even if I existed for long or not. At that level, nothing I did mattered. It was all like smoke, as the main voice of the Book of Ecclesiastes would say. 

    After some rather recent events in my life involving loss, I realize that the world is trying its hardest to work with me and other humans in general. It is constantly trying to adapt and endure our feeble attempts at dominance and supremacy, even at the cost of its own existence. Not only that, but my small world of family and friends are trying their best to work with me and be there for me while I deal with some of the pain that comes with loss. Before I started writing this, I was at my sister's house with three of her children as we prepared for the fourth child's baby shower. There was no conversation about pain or support or even loss. Nothing was even mentioned. There was, however, levity and comradery as food was made and ideas bounced around from person to person. It was probably one of the better nights I have had in the last two months. 

    With this all in mind, I conclude that the world is with me. As much as my feelings of insignificance still linger, I can look to my family and friends with a small hope that I am bringing some sort of happiness in their life. The future always reminds me that things can change; I just hope the changes that need to be made or will be made will only help me, and that the world is working with me to make sure this happens. 

    But I digress. This response is long enough, especially given the late hour at the time of writing this. Sleep is calling, and with sleep is a new hope that the world is for me. 

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