Perspective
“We see things not as they are, but as we are.” — Anonymous*
Everything we see/think/feel goes through the filter of our own experience and bias. It’s why even you and your siblings remember the same childhood events differently. And why eyewitness reports of a crime never match exactly. Objective facts can be harder to come by than we’d like to admit.
“Blue is blue you might say,” but the colorblind would disagree — unless they had been told and believed it to be true. “But it is blue; they just couldn’t see it.”
It could be argued that there are a lot of things we, the non-colorblind, can’t see — it’s just a matter of what’s getting in our way.
This seemed like a good thing to remember now. ❤️
xo,
Beth
*I used to attribute this quote to Anaïs Nin, but I’ve since learned that "this saying has been used by Anaïs Nin, H. M. Tomlinson, Steven Covey, and others. However, its origin is not known, and it is not possible to provide a precise ascription. Hence, the expression should be labeled anonymous. [Though it is also assigned] to the Talmud [this] does not have strong support. Perhaps future discoveries will help clarify matters.” — Garson O’Toole