At some point in the last year or two, I started paying close attention to the people who were showing up in my life. I realised that their presence wasn’t mere coincidence and that they weren’t showing up out of luck (good or bad). They were showing up because of me. Because of my thoughts and actions.
This is true for friends, romantic interests, colleagues, and neighbours. Our experience of others is always a reflection of our inner world.
This is why people can tell wildly different stories about the same person. So often we hear and tell these different stories, and yet we seem to have this notion that there is a ‘true’ version of each of us. We assume that our understanding of someone is an accurate reflection of who they ‘really’ are.
You know when people say ‘oh she just doesn’t see that about him’ or ‘I know you think they’re nice, but I’ve seen differently’. Well, guess what? You saw what you put out. There is no definitive person standing in front of you, with set personality traits and characteristics.
There is only a reflection of your perspective at a particular point in time. It’s a bit like the ocean. Initially, it looks constant and unchanging. But when you take the time to look more deeply you see that in fact, the ocean is always evolving and changing, that the currents are constantly shifting, the temperature rising and falling, and the water that makes up the ocean is ever moving.
People are like the ocean.
Ever changing and evolving….
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