“Events are always [at] hand,” writes author John Berger. “But the coherence of these events – which is what one means by reality – is an imaginative construction.”
That’s an interesting observation.
What Berger is alluding to is how we arrange the sequence of events in our lives, and their relationships, and the ultimate meaning we give to them, is an act of our imagination.
Events stand alone and how we make sense of them, create cohesion, is in our minds. Which means, we have the ability to shape how we understand our lives, and if we want, to imagine, or reimagine, a new coherence.
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