Good morning America, my apartment is slowly coming to a clean (get it?? Teehee... I'm so witty :P)!!! I'm on a break right now, so I thought I would write a little to relax. It's kind of funny how...cleaning really reflects who I am as a person. I know you guys think I'm crazy when I say that, but it's true!!! Here's what I've learned:
#1- It doesn't matter the size of the task- I can get it done within the tiniest time frame if I set my mind to it.
#2- When I'm working on a project, I'd rather work alone on it. I'm not really an antisocial person, but when I want to get something done, I want it done MY way, and other people get in the way.
#3- I really enjoy doing stuff for other people: Jiji really wanted to go to Yellowstone with her lover, so I offered to move all of her stuff for her AND do her cleaning check. The thing is, I'm actually really enjoying myself all the while!
#4- There is no best music for me to listen to when I clean. I have a really varied mix going on right now: Hard rock, Country, Acoustic, Rap, Instrumental, Pop, Soundtrack. It's all there! I think the chaos helps me focus oddly enough...
Whew!!! There's still a lot to do, but I feel like I'm slowly making my way to finished :) And lookie there!!! I'm having some good fun all the while.
I shall digress a bit now. All this lonely cleaning helps me focus on my thoughts since the process requires little to no brain power haha. The thing on my mind has been the human practice of false association.
You know how sometimes you'll say something and it wasn't intended in a certain way or towards somebody and suddenly someone is feeling like it was? I feel like that happens a lot. Why does misinterpretation and false association happen? My opinion on this matter is that it's caused by an inner/subconscious idea that the supposed subject has beforehand. In other words, I think people feel like everything is directed at them because they happen to be feeling something similar or along the same lines as what was expressed by another person. Because of the coincidence, they assume that, since there was no WAY that someone else would coincidentally be thinking/feeling the same thing, they obviously meant it towards them and meant something more significant than actually intended.
So I'll give an example- a vague one because I don't want to injure anyone by saying it. The other day, I was talking about something with a group of people, and I said something about an experience that I had a little bit ago concerning some people I had seen do something. I mentioned that I thought that the way that those people had acted was ridiculous. Someone in that group of people I was talking to had thought that I was talking about something specific to her/him but in a subtle way by applying the concept to another group of people. In reality, I was actually talking about those people and their situation, but apparently she/he thought that I was just trying to send her/him a hint through my example. Turns out, she/he is currently struggling through a situation that is sort of similar to what I was talking about (I didn't know), so the idea was already there. She/he assumed that he was the subject of my conversation.I like to think of a phrase commonly used in business, statistics, and science. That saying is, "Correlation does not imply Causation." In other words, just because something happens to be somehow associated to a subject, it does not necessarily make them directly associated to the subject.
Let us remember to take a few steps back and think about the whole picture rather than limiting our perspective to the small window of time or small moment in which it is experienced. Let us not be so quick to judge. As said in Matthew 7...,
| "Judge not, that ye be not judged; for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you again." | |
We'll all be a little happier if we assume the world and all it's inhabitants aren't our to get us! Let's give more people the benefit of the doubt; let's believe in the best of people. Finally, let's all work a little harder to sort out the facts before we judge a situation and the intent behind it :)
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