Is my world really the best?

Can my perfect world actually exist? For this blog post I decided to choose Twyla Tharp’s exercise Our Perfect world, number 17 on page 135. Twyla says that her perfect world does not exist but it’s there as a goal for her and that is how I wanted to view my perfect world however I found that my perfect world is fairly unrealistic. For this exercise I found it easier to be selfish when thinking about the criteria because it’s “my world” so that’s where I started. I started by thinking about what makes me happy and what my world would look like. Her a few things I came up with; people who are going to shut down my ideas and go against my desires would not be present, if I wanted to try something new the opportunity would be available, my family and I would never have to go without the necessities,  I would have no obligations to other people only to myself and I would not have any fears. Now those are just a few of the ideas I came up with for my world. Doing this was more difficult than I planned on it being. I thought that coming up with my own world would be easy and only take a couple of minutes however I found myself contradicting my own thoughts I also found that I do actually care a lot about other people and how what I do effects them. In my world I created I am a very selfish person which I don’t like I understand the point was to create a world for me however I realized my happiness does not only rely on my wants I also want my friends, family and people around me to be happy. When I see others around me struggling and not obtaining their goals it makes me upset. If I were to somehow actually create an entire new world, these rules that I came up with would have to be flushed down the toilet and recreated with other peoples desires and needs in mind. I didn’t like just thinking about my wants and needs throughout this exercise.