Broaden the perspective

This blog was initially intended to merely serve as a clean empty medium for me to release the loads of observations that I was going to make once I moved to my new city. I often think of creating things and exposing them to a certain audience as an adequate way of arranging my thoughts and reaching a clear mindset. Being of a somewhat opinionated nature, my writing has often reflected exactly what goes through my brain and how I personally see things. Lately, however, I’ve been struggling with a concept that has very much proved its relevance in many aspects of my life. The question that keeps coming up is: why do we put so much value in our own individual perspectives? If the world around us is more accurately an idea of the world around us that has been formed based on the viewpoints of the billions of humans that have lived since the start of life on this planet, why is it that we spend so little time acknowledging and learning about the different perspectives of the people around us? How is that we never interrupt our own train of unjustified, groundless judgements to put ourselves completely in another individual’s perspective and seen matters through their eyes with pure impartiality? It is a concept that is impossible to be perfectly practiced, of course, since absolute objectivity is a non-human quality. But I think this is an idea well worth dwelling on. We might not be able to form an image of the world other than what is seen with our own vision, but we can certainly expand that image by adding to it things that others have observed and we have not.

With this mindset, one might come across what I’ve been experiencing for the past while which is “the struggle to be certain in an uncertain world” –as John Patrick Shanley, the writer-director of Doubt puts it. But nonetheless, I prefer to have the wider vision.
Put all the eyes on the table. Let’s switch.