World 208 is the world where we wear our emotions. In this world, bodies don’t exist. We are our thoughts, feelings, and opinions. We project our emotions and thoughts to the world around us. Our outer world is mirroring the inner world and so we create our own world. Everything is about the perception of how we perceive ourselves. It is like a big mirror of life. Everything around us is the reflection of what is inside of us. We don’t need to hide what we think; everyone can immediately sense it. In this world, we are 100% true to ourselves and others and we live in harmony with everything around us.
What if …
we wore our emotions, opinions and thoughts?
Issue targeted:
The purpose is to make people feel and experience so we can learn how to be vulnerable, not suppress emotions, and not be scared to feel them fully. Being in touch with our emotions leads to emotional intelligence and a better understanding of social interactions that can prevent conflicts and overall societal harmony.
We live in a world constantly surrounded by many people and things, receiving much information daily through social media about events happening in the lives of our friends, family members, colleagues, neighbors, and people we don’t personally know.
It’s easy to connect with a person on the other side of the planet in a second and get information about what they are doing in their lives. But often, we forget the connection to ourselves and who we are, which is more complex, and sometimes we don’t understand ourselves.
Suppressing our emotions leads to an internal struggle, deepening the separation from ourselves. That creates many psychological and mental problems that we continue to overlook and learn to ignore. However, this can be avoided if we learn to experience, express, and accept our emotions without shame and guilt. Because there is always a reason for how we feel, we do not always acknowledge it.
Inspiration:
Yayoi Kusama
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This World was contributed by Klara Dvorackova (located in UK / Czech Republic) using a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence which allows others to share and adapt the work in any medium and for any purpose, providing that they credit the author and share their material using the same Creative Commons licence.
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