Who Decides?

25 August 2026
rawan
Who Decides?

Who decides the beginning, and who decides the end? Who gets to decide the meaning given to an object? Perhaps the most important question is: who drew those meanings to begin with? Were we programmed to believe in them, or did we program ourselves?

These aren't really questions looking for answers rather a way to shift how our eyes perceive things, to look beyond those meanings.

Life in itself is one long perception. What you perceive is what you experience and experiment within a quest to know yourself.

This is simply our philosophy: a space for experimentation, not perfection. A place where one discovers oneself through what is perceived as "forgotten." Because in our reality, when we resurrect a forgotten object, we are in actuality resurrecting forgotten parts of ourselves, parts that may have been neglected in this accelerated world.

Maybe this is why it's sometimes difficult to see potential in something that has been labeled "without possibility." In truth, we don't perceive its condition, we perceive the meaning we gave to it.

And maybe the strangest part of these meanings is that we can never quite remember the moment we assigned them. No one sits down one day and decides, "from now on, this thing is worthless." A meaning builds itself slowly through repetition, through silence and never questioning until it becomes simply how we see things, and we forget that we were the ones who gave it that meaning in the first place.

But a meaning, no matter how fixed it feels, is nothing more than an agreement we ourselves shaped. And any agreement can be reconsidered; even undone the moment we ask: who said so?

This is our practice with every piece and decision we make: to delay the question "is this worth it?" in favor of a harder one "who decided it isn’t?”

Maybe the first step isn't changing the meaning at all. Maybe it's simply remembering that we were the ones who gave it.

In the end, this is just our philosophy not the utter truth! What looks like an illusion to us might look like necessity to someone else. And maybe that's exactly the point to keep the question open, instead of closing it with an answer.

There's a part of this process we haven't shared before. Not because we’ve hidden it but because we haven’t yet found the right way to describe it.