Really?

Or are you just making this up?

It’s a good question.  We’re exploring how to produce our art in an infinite game.  It sounds more like fiction, right?

We might be surprised, though, by what’s real and what isn’t.

Is repeating the past (behaviours, policies, marketing, process, thinking … ) when it hasn’t worked, really an option for our future?*  Or is trying the untried alternative not as crazy as it first appears?

Individuals and whole societies can create stories which are unrelated to reality.  (We can behave as though we live in a world where our nation’s behaviours are impeachable, that everyone really could have clean water, freedom from disease, enjoy education, live in security, but we don’t.)

I really believe in the goodness of people and often find myself saying “People are amazing,” but I know many are not good or do right, and  too many choose selfish over selfless, but I also see people who live to make a difference; I typed “Stephen” in my browser and here’s the top result.

Some just know there’s another reality and live towards it.  These people change the rules.  Different can often be good, but can be another shade of same, but making a difference is about something which changes a person’s life, often beginning with our own.

We often think real means tangible, but Humans can value what they feel about something even more highly.

So is your art real, or delusion?  You can check it out by asking the following?

Am I successful at what I do (what’s the difference I make)?

Do I do this intuitively (does it flow from my life)?

Am I growing as a result of doing this (is there a difference in me)?

Do I need to do this to be satisfied and fulfilled ?

Your stuff which makes a difference is real.

(*I was one of the naive ones who watched the televised debates leading up to the British election of 2010, hoping for a new politics, but it turned out to be more of the same.)