November 27th, 2007
Both sides
The lesson that keeps getting pounded into me this year, both in my role as a departmental chair, but also serving on this jury, is that it is SOOO important to hear both sides of every story. Many of us go through life believing that X is true, but have never heard or were never open to hearing the reason why X is NOT true. Our lives are filled with little zeroes and ones: I love this; I hate that; This is true; This is false; and so on. When I re-evaluate something and switch a zero to a one, my brain kind of tickles. It can set off a chain reaction of similar events: oh! If this is now true, then this must be false, this must be false and this must be true! A ha!
November 27th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Ours is a Rashomon reality in its intricacy, isn’t it? And it is not just the different witness accounts to reconcile, but our own participation in the drama. Some might say that it is more accurate to describe the situation as a plurality of realities. A definitive description as a singular truth may be impossible.
But in any event it is good to tickle the brain, and more so the mind.
It sounds as if your reality is being especially cooperative of late.