Social Imagination

“We all have our social imagination: the capacity to invent visions of what should be and what might be in our deficient society, on the streets where we live, in our schools.”

Everyone has their opinions on how we should live life and how society should handle us doing so. Furthermore, everyone’s opinions have different aspects that make them their own. These opinions are what makes us who we are and how they affect other peoples' opinions is how we make our impact on the world. So, yes, I agree that people are allowed to have their opinions as long as they use them to help, not harm.

Past, Present, and Future: Path to the Truth

When you are making a decision on whether or not to do something, you rely on past experiences, right? Say, in the past you ate sushi and the next day you were sick and couldn't stop throwing up. Obviously, you wouldn't eat that sushi again, because you had a bad experience with it. In this, you learn from the experience and shape what you do in the future around those good or bad experiences. This is what we do. It is human nature to learn from our mistakes, making certain that we not repeat them in order to survive and/or make our life the best it can be. Doing this can help us to set us on the path to what we really want to accomplish in our lives, instead of repeating the same mistake over and over again until that path had so many kinks and grooves that we are unable to fix them and have the original, correct path. Sometimes, however, this is a good thing.

Sometimes, people have several different truths and if one doesn't work out for them, they have others that may go towards instead. I like to think that everyone has multiple paths they can travel down, but that the amount that are open to them are determined by what they experience throughout their life. This may be in career, relationships (platonic or otherwise), et cetera. As they have new experiences, new doors are opened, therefore revealing a new option with every door. This is what gives us those multiple paths to follow. The key to opening these doors is to do as much as you can and find out what interests you the most so that you can have as many doors open to as you can.