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Welcome everyone this is LEAPIE JJ Lee Coming right back at you with some more English Creative Response Assignment Blog Post Action coming to you live... (Or whenever you're reading this) from my House. Yup...

Today! We will be discussing whether we live in our own reality or whether we change our reality to meet others expectations of us? This is a simple question... kind of, in a sense that it is easy to answer, but hard to come up with a reason for, e.g Yes or No, but Why??????
This blog post will be in a different format to the other ones, partly because I feel that the other two blogs were MUCH MUCH more informative than what I would usually write. Although that is the right thing to do, it just doesn't really fit with my style of blogging. This one will be... much more spread and informal than the ones before, even though they both were pretty informal as well... So without any more waiting, lets dive STRAIGHT into it.

First of all, I asked the question of whether we create our own reality to my friends and they came up with VERY interesting answers... And we had very interesting conversations.

First of all I asked my friend Beth. The conversation went something like this:

? Beth:  Another question attached to that one is 'does everyone else exist or are we alone', did we create everyone else, did someone else create it, is this all even real?
 

Waait wait wait. Pause right here for a second. So, we see in the above statement, that Beth, has taken the question to the extremities. On this side of the scale, the 'question' virtually becomes impossible to answer. This is because there is no way to prove whether I created this world or whether I am in a world that is created by other people in which I am only ONE of many creators. If I created this world then why isn't everything the way I want it to be? However how do we know that I didn't create a world in which I deliberatey made things not the way I wanted them to be. There is no way to know the answer to this question.
 
Then I went to see my friend Lushimi:

 Lushimi:  I think if we change our reality to meet expectations of others... it's still our own reality

if that makes sense :L

Lushimi's point here makes the question about whether we create our own reality more about how we fit into society than about whether we actually create our own universe. When the question is asked at this level it is assumed that we exist in a world that is created by others, with ourselves as one player.

Then I consulted my bestie.

  Nicholas:  I can only tell you about this amazing and strange girl I met in Melbourne.

 me:  snort

 Nicholas:  Not that way.

 me:  hue hue hue hue hue

 Nicholas:  I was at Wilson's Promontory.

I saw her sitting on the beach and I went over there and sat down in the sand with her.

I don't know why, it was so inexplicable.

I just felt compelled to do so, and I don't feel the same since then.

 me:  ummmmm.......

 Nicholas:  Time seemed to stop. The world kept going, but we were going to sit together at the beach forever, watching the waves

 me:  Okay

this is going off topic

 Nicholas:  and talking.

 me: What if I gave it to you this way

 Nicholas:  It wasn't romantic or anything

just saying

 me:  'does everyone else exist or are we alone?'

 Nicholas:  That's what I'm trying to say.

Before she talked to me, I felt as if everyone was real. Afterwards, after we talked about experiencing things for ourselves, I started to feel alone.

Everyone feels like people I created.

I created people for different reasons in my mind so I wouldn't be so alone.

I don't feel things about people as much.

I don't care about the people I like as much, and it scares me.

But I find solace in other things now. I like listening to music more, and I like looking at beautiful things more, and I like challenging my mind. I don't like people as much. It's weird.

From the above, I do not know whether Nick wrote it for these exact reasons or not but I interpreted it in this way. Nick is saying that, when you depend on other people, you also depend on them to create your reality FOR you. As soon as you stop depending on other people, and use your strengths for yourself, you create your OWN reality.
So the extent to which we create our OWN reality depends on HOW MUCH we depend on OTHER people.

Hee hee hee... Nick, with your ridiculous answer... :P  Ahem... anyways, now what I find interesting is that, even though, as stated above, in my opinion, this is a very simple question to answer, a yes or no question. HOWEVER, it can be seen that NONE of the people who were asked this question answered yes or no. And all three of the people had very differing answers because they interpreted the question in three different ways: one at the extremes of what is sensical, one at a very practical level (bland!!) and one from a point of view that focuses on the individual.

Finally, I will give my humble opinion on this question. Do we live in our own reality or do we change our reality to meet others expectations of other people? Well... simply said, I think yes, we do. Let's look at this simply. We've all had those moments, standing before somebody you 'like' and then when they say they like/dislike something, you make a small, maybe even unconscious mental note to yourself, 'Okay, avoid/look into the thing she/he just mentioned. Or maybe straightened your hair in front of them. Maybe show off? We currently live in a SOCIETY. This means we are not alone. Although we sometimes feel secluded or alone, we most definitely aren't. You may say and think that you are actually Harry Potter's Third Cousin's Friends Uncle and Batman's Successor's Twelfth Cousin's Friend, or Pi may have created Richard Parker but WE, WE the rest of SOCIETY, tell you and him EXPLICITLY, that you AREN'T and that he didn't. Well, then there goes your little reality. We all can admit that, yes we change our reality, to make it more believable and understandable for others. Trust me, no matter how hard you deny it, it's right there, and you know it. You've all done it before.
Well, I hope you had fun reading this post.

So.... as we conclude this blog post, we will sign off with our usual way

Peace out Girl Scouts