September 19, 2023 – A

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
with its four pairs of opposites:

Thinking/Feeling
Extraversion/Introversion
Sensing/Intuition
Judging/Perceiving

is one way of conceptualizing 
the eight fundamental/foundational forces
shaping the way we are,
and therefore, the way things are,
worldwide through the ages.

Life is but a dance of opposites
clashing over how things are.

How things are is a reflection
of how we are,
and how we are is beyond our power
to shape or control.

The way we see things 
is just the way we see things,
and even the input we may have in that
is, itself, shaped by the way we see things.

To see/think/feel differently
is to BE different
and that is quite beyond us.
We can only be who we are
pretending to be different.

Invisible forces arrange our lives
apart from our intents and purposes.
And those invisible forces 
are who we are, 
and also are.
Without us being in charge of
and determining,
the ways we see, think, feel and do.

What is guiding our boat 
on its path through the sea?
The eight happy captains it seems,
and their sixteen different ways
of arranging/expressing themselves
in the situations/circumstances of our lives.

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