The World
The emotions provoked by that process shape your views of the world, and that’s what becomes “the world” to you, the things that these influences have (indirectly, through their influence) “told” you and taught you about life. That becomes “your world,” “the world”.
In that context, the world is always both our environments, and the result being our understanding of life. When we say things like “the world is cruel”, we’re not talking about actual existence itself we’re strictly referring about our experience that’s related to these influences.
The people in our environment (who they are) matters less than the vibes they exude and which influences us. It’s those vibes that shape our perception of “the world” (our experience); and that’s how “the world” comes to mean our understanding of life as per our experience of it.
“The world” to mean environment means not our conclusions on our experience of life but our current experience of the environment we’re in. It’s our surrounding, and it’s directly determined by how much disappointment or how much fulfillment you get from the people that are in it.
In all of this, what matters are the people there, and the opportunities there, the vibrations that others have permeated your world and it’s those and their nature that give and define your impressions of life.
This definition is what people really mean when they say and speak about “the world”.
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