Perspective is an important part of all of our lives. It allows us to take in the world around us and can be influenced by SOOOO many factors. One event, experienced by two different people could seem ENTIRELY different to both people. There have been hundreds of treaties written about this kind of thing in almost every civilization, and yet for most of us this seems like a daily discovery.
We go about our lives every day. Our brains do what brains do and intake all of the sensory data coming in from our fingers and eyes and hears and such. But since each of our brains process this same data in different ways depending on how we were raised or even depending on what might have happened to us 5 minutes before this specific data was processed, the result could come out hundreds of different ways.
I recently met a coworker who had no sense of smell...she was telling me about an instance with her family on a car trip where she thought she was smelling cookies, but to the rest of the car, the smell was from a skunk. That one deficiency in sensory input drastically changed how she perceived her world.
One of the things that prevents us from colliding with each other on a constant basis from being stuck in our own little worlds would have to be empathy I think. The fact that we have the ability to make observations of each other at rapid speeds, we can tell by the simple change in vocal quality whether someone is sad or upset or happy. Being able to put ourselves in other people's shoes. I guess it could be like being able to see the woods from the trees. Being able to see the bigger picture rather than focusing only on ourselves.
So why am I talking about perspective? Because how we perceive the world changes the way we interact with it. Something we are scared of may only seem scary because we don't have all the data. A child may be scared to go into a dark basement because they think there are monsters or ghosts down there. But once they learn that there are no monsters or ghosts in the dark, the basement doesn't seem so scary. A personal experience may seem lonely because you don't see the other people going through the experience with you. But once you expand you perspective, things don't seem so lonely.
So for me I think something I'm gonna be working on in the next few months will be perspective. Breaking down the things that seem like insurmountable tasks into manageable pieces. Refocusing and realizing that the things I don't think I could do are actually easily doable. I think this is something I've actually realized with this round of fight tests.
I thought trying to do all 8 weapons in one day would be almost impossible and would be asking for failure. But in thinking that, I was discounting my own abilities and the people around me. Now I am down to 1 fight to learn choreography for and one script to fully memorize. Honestly a week before hand I should be just having to practice rather than learn new things, but where I'm at with my training I think I've got this. Plus I have some of the best in the area working with me on the same project and one of the best teachers in the business.
Just like Hamlet says..."for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so".
So with just 6 days left till my Facebook Detox begins, time to start refocusing and closing things out till March.
Monstrous Discrepancies
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