Symbolism, Growth and Will

We begin similarly with impressions.  If you have wondered about the learnings when surrounded by the chaotic nature of others, you are not alone. The stories we tell one another, help define us. They quickly dissolve into anecdote, during which we recount pesonal experiences, often as a solution to some intemperate problem. Because I experienced X+Y=AO it is a pattern in my mind, therefore I offer it as an answer to todays need for coordination.  Anecdotes are interesting stories, more than impressions, the reveal relationships.  They too dissolve into opinion. Opinion happens to take over from the pursuit of knowledge because they rely totally on past experience and an assumption that they can be lifted from my context then to your context now. As much as we might compete for dominance, they are still limited to idiosyncratic impression. But they raise an almost stereotypic comparison and in that, they are very useful. Is the opinion factual, or is it based on belief, unprovable assertions inserted when fact is absent. Impression, anecdote, opinion or fact? Which is your truth? Or is truth deterministic?  Which is reliable? Which truth does masonry aspire to illustrate?  In all these lanes we cannot challege beliefs. Only the mind can do that. Is it the antivaxxer lying in an ICU begging to be vaccinated,making that change when told- it's too late?  Or is it the pursuit of happiness by indulding the senses? Whatever the driver, it raises a question about reality. Do we manufacture it or is it awareness based on fact we search. The more we absorb by observing continuity of history, no beginning, no end, the greater our perspective changes. Is that continuity a singularity we share, or particles=waves of insight? It takes a strong will to hold us in balance. I find myself asking; where to we draw the greater strength? Is it drawn from the past? but that only exists in the subsconscious. Or is it drawn from observation?