Monday, December 27, 2010

YOU'LL NEVER REALLY KNOW SOMEONE

As we're required to ingest more information, and preform an ever increasing number of tasks we loose our ability to form deep and personal relationships. We become overstimulated, and in an attempt to make things easier on ourselves we organize the people around us by labeling them. 


HOW MANY TIMES HAS SOMEONE LABELED YOU INCORRECTLY? 


Humans are complex things, it takes a lot of time, energy, and attention to form a deep and personal relationship with someone, and it's simply not on the to do list. 


I've associated a value for you, and now everything you do and say will somehow be related back to this first initial label. The actions of that person take on the meaning of the label in some abstract way and allow for a lot of miscommunication and lack of understanding.


Much in the same way our brain processes sight, so do we try to fill in the gaps about a person with details that might not actual be true or factual.  This isn't necessarily a bad thing as it stimulates the cognitive part of our brains, but the fact remains in doing so we'll never fully know or understand someone.


 So, the question we should be asking ourselves is whether or not it's worth trying to be understood, and if the answers is no, should we care what anyone thinks?  


Also by labeling someone, and associating their actions to a word; does the word take on a new definition or meaning, serving to only further the problem? 

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