The entrepreneur and writer James Clear asked his readers in his Thursday’s 3-2-1 newsletter:
“Many of our habits and beliefs are learned from those who raised us. Which family story are you unconsciously repeating and reenacting? How can you rewrite the script to liberate yourself and the next generation?”
I really like introspective questions like these because it makes you realize we are all processes in constant change, responding to our environment and influencing them back. As much as we want it to be, we are not the drivers of our own lives. All our beliefs, values, and stories are the product of things that happened to us, not things that we made happen from our own volition.
It is as if all conscious creatures were like small interconnected streams, each influencing each other, in the larger river of life.