I was chatting with a friend and he was complaining about the job market. I was surprised to hear him complain about the state of the world. I'm in a place where I feel like I'm creating my reality and if I complain about a certain thing, I'm actually creating the thing that I am complaining about. Re-inforcing this reality that isn't useful for me. I mentioned it to him. I told him that he is a powerful human being (because he is) and he can create any reality he wants. He then replied to me 2 facts, two ideas that I once held as truth: I don't want to change reality as it could makes things worst. I'd rather simply accept what is. And this bothered me. Not so much that he said these things, but that I thought that they were somewhat true. The first statement, is really self defeating. I don't want to use the power I have to change reality, since I might make a mistake and actually make things worst for everyone. The problem is that we are always influencing reality one way or another. Sometime in small ways, I go to the store to buy something, and sometime in a bigger way, I wish into reality a certain event that changes my whole life. Of course if the second statement could be true, "I'd rather not modify reality and simply accept what is" there would be a way out. But there is no way one can not be an active element, a creative element in a system. So we are left with, a reality that we affect, and a power to affect that reality that grows as we become more aware and conscious in this reality. There is no going back, there is no turning around and stopping the effect we have on reality, just a moving forward. By denying our own power to be applied to the creation of the reality, we are simply fooling ourselves into thinking that what is happening in the reality is not from our own will but from consciousness itself. That state of 'non-affecting-reality' will not happen during our conscious life. It will only happen when we end up dissolving into consciousness itself. And by then we'll have realize that reality is simply a dream which stop existing when we awake. It's similar to being in a dream, and saying, I will not affect my dream because I might screw it up. Well it's a dream to start with, your own mind is creating that dream, even if you are thinking you are letting go of the control of the dream. What you are actually saying is more I will give away my power so that I can be fooled by my own power, trying to believe and convince myself that I am not creating this reality. I don't say all that in reaction to my friend, it's really a reaction to myself. As I have wanted to withdraw from manipulating reality, similarly to someone who has learned to walk, and try to not walk anymore. Once you awaken to the power you have over reality, you can't go back, you can simply go forward. Of course you'll mess things up, of course thing will not be perfect, but it will definitely be better, with one awaken soul trying to make this world a better place.