Our Embedded Selves

How we perceive the world, effects how we engage with the world. The two are inextricably linked. How you understand the world, will effect how you respond to it, and it will of course, respond back. This is how life goes on...and how we often get caught up in vicious cycles...or for others, enriching cycles. We are oh so quick to point the finger at other people, other places, other institutions, other cultures...rather than look at what we are bringing to the table.

It seems to me, that the human inclination is toward scapegoating...doing anything possible to blame someone else for our experience, rather than taking personal responsibility, and forging ahead with our own often-difficult journies.

We all come with our perspectives. Formed from birth and breeding, our histories and their histories, we have a particular way of filtering our experiences of life, of processing the information we are receiving, and that then influences the ways we respond to the people we encounter. All these little nuanced differences, and hidden histories, are enough to stop, or at least dissuade me from talking grandiosely about the realities that exist...and limit me to talking about my own little unique filtered experiences.

We are all embedded. If anyone tells you they are not, don't believe them. Weigh up what people tell you with this in mind....when they speak of a person with distaste...or of a country they loved...a movie they think is the best movie ever...the best place to go for a walk...why you need to be saved from your sins...or why you don't...or what political viewpoint you ought to have...or why life is so this or that...remember that although we like to speak with ontological exactitude, we are always talking about our embedded-selves.