EMERGENTS II: Carpe Diem
- Larisa - LoQueArde
- Oct 7
- 2 min read
The unexpected can also be your own creation.
Sometimes chance is built when you create without trying to control.
For a long time, I thought opportunities came in only two forms:
the ones you plan obsessively, or the ones that seem to fall from the sky.
But then I discovered a third kind.
Edward calls it manufactured emergence —
neither pure chance nor total control,
but the result of having created the conditions for something to inevitably appear.
It’s not magic. It’s a scene.
A setup where you don’t script everything,
but you do prepare the space so the unexpected can walk in.ego.
✦ The Scene as Structure
To manufacture an emergence is to open multiple fronts,
care for the quality of each one,
and sustain them over time.
The more surfaces you create,
the more value you add,
the longer you persist,
the more likely something meaningful will emerge.
The problem isn’t provoking emergence — we almost all do that without realizing it.
The real challenge is being ready to capture it.
Do you have the knowledge to recognize it?
The courage to act?
The energy to sustain it?
The clarity to see which one truly matters?
Because if you hesitate too long,
the window closes.
The value evaporates.
And what could have burned goes out.
✦ Co-creating with Chaos
Edward once said that when he got injured in martial arts,
it wasn’t just bad luck.
He had been co-creator of the conditions that led him there.
I lived the same with dance —
perfectionism and unconsciousness.
I had prepared my own scene without knowing it.
That’s why now I understand:
it’s not about fighting chaos,
but partnering with it.
Letting the scene bring what’s unexpected
without extinguishing the fire that makes it possible.
✦ Carpe Diem Is Not Impulse, It’s Availability
“Living in the moment” doesn’t mean chasing every spark.
It means being available to recognize the one that matters.
The one that doesn’t repeat.
The one that emerges when time curves
and you were already creating.
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