We Don’t See Things As They Are
August 31, 2009 by BloggerNewbie
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
~ Anais Nin
I never realized the truth in that statement. It reminded me of the day my sister passed away. My world as I knew it changed forever. I was devastated yet as I was driving through town people were milling about and going about their business like nothing happened! They were running errands, going to the post office, grocery shopping, like everything was normal. How could that be? Didn’t they know! It was an eerie feeling. The world was stopped and in limbo. We should stop and regroup, figure things out, what were we going to do now. That didn’t happen. I didn’t understand.
Our current trauma is my grandson’s battle with cancer. Everyone in the world knows about Drake and his battle, right? They must know, it is so consuming. Childhood cancer is rare, we live in a small town, everyone chats. They know all the detail. How would anyone not know the life and death situation of this little baby. Even the people in my extended circle or especially the people in my extended circle. Again, nope. I am amazed.
Yeah, I know, the world does not revolve around me. I don’t expect everyone I know to have all the details of my life. I really don’t. We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
What about me? The verdict is in – guilty. I tend to live in my own little world and I guess you can say that about most people.
My world is a world without drugs, crime, violence etc. Those things happen to other people in other places. Fortunately, I do live in a low crime rate area. However, apparently there is enough of a drug problem in our area to warrant a whole court division known as “drug court”. Not only has the court system developed this separate division to deal with this problem, it is always over booked and yet meets once a week! How can that be?
How can it be that I don’t see things as they are? Sort of feels kind of eerie. Am I that unaware of my surroundings? That’s probably not good. Is it possible that I just see things as I am?
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Dee,
I think we all have a very limited view of the world. We can’t possibly see everything, so we choose to focus on those things that are close to us, important to us or cross our paths.
Even when tragedy strikes it doesn’t touch everyone in the same way. I still remember 9/11. Or rather I don’t – because I was hiking in the mountains and had no access to media. When I came back to ‘civilisation’ I felt like an alien as I didn’t have a clue what was going on. Everyone assumed I did and it didn’t occur to them that someone might not know.
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Or maybe we participate in the seeing of what we see. Not totally objective or totally subjective but a kind of interface…