musings - a good reminder

[phoenixprime]

People base their perceptions of us on the most recent ways we've interacted with them. They don't see what goes on in our heads, only how we actually interact. This get particularly highlighted in online forums, where the only way they know us is through the text we actually type, not the text we actually think

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Hmm

[mlordslittleone]

Interesting to think about. I would say my most common (and thus often most recent) comment is a simple =)

Perhaps this gives the impression of a quiet happy person? Which, like most perspectives, is true some of the time.

Re: Hmm

[phoenixprime]

=)

Seriously, I suspect it does.

I'd forgotten the above reality, and just got bitten by it. So I'm going to go back to remembering that everything is about appearances - it's about what the other person experiences, not about my interior world. :)

Re: Hmm

[mlordslittleone]

I think that it's a lot about both (as specifically vague as that may be...)

For them, it is all about what they experience, and how that does or does not relate to parts of their interior world. Your perspective of them and their reactions, is all about your interior world.

I have run into a lot of my own situations kind of like this lately with people in real life. They encounter me as the decision making, getting things done, in-charge person that coordinates and fixes and whatnot. In my interior world, that is what I DO, that is not who I AM. More hmms...

Thanks for posting this, even if its counter to parts of the spirit of your last post. I'd missed your writings and musings.

Re: Hmm

[phoenixprime]

:)

Seriously, you just made me smile. :)

I agree with what you're saying. On all accounts, including the part where this post is a bit counter to the last one.