I believe that everyone lives in their own world. I mean, sure, we're all here living on the same Earth. Looking at the same things. Listening to the same things. But we're seeing everything and hearing everything differently. From the moment one is born, they create their perceptions of everything in their own mind. No two people look at the same thing and see the same thing. Everyone has their own needs, desires, and qualities that are unique to them. How would we cope with everything that life throws at us if we weren't able to have our own thoughts? I think our mind is a safe place in which we can think anything we want and not be judged, criticized, or humiliated for it. I feel like we are each the center of our own universes. This may sound dumb or arrogant, but the world does revolve around us. My world revolves around me.
The world is of course a mirror of who we are, because we're looking at it through our own eyes. We're able to make the connections we want, when we want. We have the power to ignore, worry, change, lust, feel, hear, see, and touch. We use our powers everyday to manipulate the way we feel when we're exposed to any given situation. Sure, there's hundreds of people that may have touched and influenced a person's life, but at the end of the day, that person is only that person (if that makes sense). It's up to each individual human to create the world they want. I don't think we are shaped by the world, I think we shape the world simply by existing. We may belong to Earth, but the world belongs to us; to me.
