What Does Tom Think And Do?
Ξ January 26th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ The World Of Tom |
Hi. I’m Tom Williams. I’m going to tell you a bit about myself on this website, including what the weather is like. I love weather.
Welcome to my website and I hope you come back because you find my life interesting enough to read more aobut.
It’s a wonderful day outside and I’m loving it. It’s warm and it’s still and it’s balmy and that’s just how I like it. It’s a perfect day really. Perfect for me.
More about the day. But whilst I’ve decided that it’s a great day you may not. Maybe in fact you’ve decided that it’s a horrible day. Perhaps you’ve had something nasty happen to you today, maybe something really terrible. Your day just isn’t working out so that’s how it’s going for you. So for you it’s a bad day.
But it’s different for you than it is for me of course. It’s entirely subjective and that’s why it may be wonderful for me and terrible for you. My day is the best ever, yours is the worst.
What is it that makes it a great day for me but is really not the best day for someone else? Why is it that I see the sunshine and the cows in the fields and the happy people? Why is it that you may not see these? What is different about you than me?
Maybe you see terrible things in the day, all bad, darkness. The best day for me is the worst day for you. That’s life isn’t it.
Surely the only explanation is that it’s in our minds. We see the day through the filter of our minds and that colors it for us. We don’t see the day, we see what our minds tell us the day is like. We filter the day through our minds and our experiences.
I even think it’s possible that if you and I have the exact same experience of the day we will see it totally differently.
You come for a drive with me and we see different things. You see the same cows, the same sunshine, the same people, but maybe you don’t even see them. Maybe you see something completely different. Your mind registers the same things as mine, and records it, but it filters it all through the experiences you’ve had in the past and mine does that too, and that makes our experience of the day different.
That’s all a little silly isn’t it, a bit too philosophical? But when I woke up and looked out the window I was thinking about that sort of stuff. (more…)