Outside the bubble

Gill Westcott considers the challenges of change

by Gill Westcott 29th July 2011

Changing how we live is hard work and yet leads to joyful companionship. It starts with a new view of reality, perhaps different from ‘normal reality’ (the one with ‘the news’ and the ‘rustly’ packets in the convenience store).  The financial crisis happened because some people were able to live in a bubble, a consensual reality in which everything would continue to improve. Like the man who lost his fishing rod off a pier in high seas, and lost his life trying to retrieve it, attachment to our current way of life can lead us, as a race, into mortal risks with the forces of nature.