17:54 - 2004-12-27
Veracity
*sigh*....
There's so much peace that could result if people were not so blind...If people could see more than the actions of a man, the look of his clothes, or the outcome of a handful of his choices. Do you ever truly know the ones you judge? Do you ever really see them, when you label them? How can you be sure someone is guilty, angry, truthful, overbearing, mundane, faulty, or good? How can you know if his actions were chosen because he is selfish, or because he is stupid, or because he is rash?
I don't know which I regret more...the cryptic nature of the human heart...or my own lack of articulation when it comes to zero hour and I must bear the sincere images behind my own persona. What's the use of talk? What's the use of touch and of reaching out, when we all eventually hit this opaque box that hides our neighbors from us? It's hard to see sometimes through all the flesh, the smiles, the looks and gestures...It's hard to know. It's hard to know the feelings, the motives, the core behind a person's words and actions. You don't truly know someone until you know his intentions, the motives behind what he says and does...These are his true features. And yet we often judge people before we've seen them in this way...We stand on the bank of arrogance, of our own perspective and try to say that someone else is inferior.
Perspective; the ever-changing, ever-effected, sometimes-crumbling, never-firm stone that we mount our feelings on. The tinted lense through which we view the universe and gather our observations. Is anything ever what it seems to be? Face value is worth nothing in the complex world of the human mind. There is so much of importance, so many things of greater value, so many things at risk, and yet we are constantly so foolish without ever even realizing it. We form vague and splotchy pictures based on what we percieve, then gather evidence to ground our floating suspicions. Is it not preposterous to assume and conclude before you've seen the whole picture? The answer is not to guess, but rather to look closer. To see deeper. In this way, through introspection, we avoid the mistake of proving what appears true, and are rewarded when the truth appears.
