When you are going through a crisis, a rough time, or a storm in your life, it is impossible to see the landscape clearly. The most important thing is to survive the storm until it is safe. After a hurricane, the survivors and crisis responders can now assess the damage and begin the cleanup and restoration process. If you were born in a time of crisis in your family, or in the world, the crisis and the aftermath may seem to be normal because you have nothing for comparison. If you were born into, what others would call a dysfunctional environment, you have no first-hand knowledge of a functional environment.
Sometimes it is necessary to evaluate what we call normal and functional by stepping outside of our situation to look around. Other cultural viewpoints, science fiction, other creative fictional writings, daydreaming, and often spiritual viewpoints give us glimpses into what other realities may look like. Before we can have a new world or a new worldview, we must first imagine. Take cover in a cave from the windstorms, evacuate the hurricane danger zone, and take shelter from the tornadoes, but find a place where you can let the dust settle and find peace, to just imagine a new reality. Now keep vision in mind and, as the dust settles, begin the task of building ‘a whole new world.’