Suspended in the aspic of the world

I've begun realising how self centered I am. when I first see something, I see it from my perspective only. I can understand why others behave the way they do, but I don't give much weightage to it, if it's just different, and not "better". Let's see how best to explain this. In a conversation today where I heard the other side of the story, I was pretty dismissive of those opinions. Turns out, what I consider to be a constricting, ever reducing social circle, others don't. I presented the situation coloured by my own bias, painting a picture far darker and gloomier than reality, for of course, people actively look forward to being in that situation. People want to be a part of such a clique. My assumption that a small set of people never changing, always stagnant, would be claustrophobic, betrayed my own biases.

People value different things differently, in making a decision various aspects of the same thing are afforded completely different weights by different people. Some people will weigh one aspect of the problem so heavily they refuse to see that more than one variable even exists. These are all pretty smart people, I'm sure I've made the same mistake in many situations.

Of course, now that I think about it, all I've said is, that I think about any problem from my own perspective, and I present them on this blog along with my own bias. Geez, that's insightful. My tone's pretty different form yesterday, mostly because the aim of this post was different, more introspective, less - whatever the tone I previous used was.

Ahh well. I'll break pattern, I'll not present lyrics from a song, or any snippet of a text.