| | It's all fake. Just like when you learn the Coriolis Effect with regards to the direction of toilet flushing is fake, some things in life are just fake. Your elementary school science teachers were all a bunch of phonies, telling you to pay special attention to the counterclockwise direction that toilet bowl water flushed in the Northern Hemisphere. Did you actually think that in Australia, toilet water flushes clockwise? Fake, I tell you, fake!
I've definitely learned a lot in the last week about perception. Mostly about how we (mis)perceive one another based on what we "know" vs. what we think we know. What I mean by that is that jug of milk being sour, even though it doesn't look curdled and hasn't passed the expiration date. Or more seriously, something as simple as a friend turning into something much more, or a relationship turning into something much less. You know what I mean.
The interesting thing about human beings is that as soon as you think you've established an honest-to-God connection with someone, things change.
It's kind of like the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, for all you science nerds out there. This "no-shit-Sherlock" theory states that it is "impossible to know with unlimited accuracy the position and momentum of a particle." This is because in order to exactly locate a particle, the observer must bounce light (such as a photon) off the particle. And doing that will alter its position in an unpredictable fashion. So the non-science part of this is that the more you know, the less you really do know.
Once you deem a person worthy to be an integral part of your life and thus allow them to enter into your heart, the person changes in a way that invalidates what perception you had of them. The fact is that you never really know them, you just know the way they reacted to you in the situations you have been in with them. And sometimes, that is fake as well.
We're all just strangers.
Oscar Wilde once said, "the truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Oscar sure knows what's up.
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| | Posted 10/3/2008 8:05 PM - 38 Views - 4 eProps - 2 comments
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