Experiences And Stories
Can never be one and the same
“Let’s just think about that for a moment.”
– Bill Hicks
Two people
Or
Eight Billion
May experience a sunset or sunrise
Yet no matter how close or timely
Either are experienced at locations
Every single individual has a different
Story they tell others or themselves
How can something so similar
Be so unique, deciphered divinely
Meanwhile, after aeons of alleged evolution
Both sunrise and sunset are misnomers
Even after most of the collective inhabitants
Of the “Pale Blue Dot” had it “dawn” on them
That the sun stays in a relatively fixed position
While hurling and burning through the cosmos
It neither “rises” or “sets” save for its
Heliocentric relative whereabouts that give
The illusion that it is going up and down
In a baby step towards experiencing reality
As it is and not using deceptive dialog to
Protend and pretend, it is different from what it is
I use the term mornglow for the former sunrise
Also eveglow as a replacement for sunset
Anyone coming aboard my crazy train?
Didn’t think so and I am okay with that.
So when someone tells you a story of their experience
It may not or obviously not be the same story you’d tell
If you found yourself experiencing the same thing
It is fun to keep that all in mind while hearing “news”
There is ultimately nothing factual about a story
Reported that can actually be concretely verified
To anyone’s satisfaction if it is not believed anyway
“The phantoms
Of our imagination
Are as real as the
Beliefs in our brain”
– Angelo Devlin
Looking at the world through a windshield. 
Calling upon honesty in all hearts.
Just yesterday I overheard someone saying something I had a kneejerk reaction to. And then spun out a whole story that went along with that one heinous thing they said. I attributed it to them in my head and started imagining how I was going to tell the whole story to a friend. A voice in me said, “why don’t you verify that’s what they meant?” Despite my spleen wanting just to condemn on one thin thread, my better self said, “that’s a wise idea,”
Well, sheepishly I must admit I was wrong. What I heard was not what was said.
I’m glad I checked. How often does that happen? To me? To others?
Maybe could all just get a little (or a lot! ) more prudent about what we think we know. A little honest, neutral digging can go a long way.
Your brain tends to believe what you think.
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Yes, all the content in the world without context or objective perspective can lead us to innumerable knee-jerk reactions.
Ultimately, we have no idea. Even at our best perception, the subjective context of someone else’s dialog. Crazy, we can communicate at all.
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