Monday, May 30, 2011

Pre-Perception


How many times have you disliked someone for no obvious reason?
How many times have you had a bad vibe, or a signal from some so you decided to dismiss them and consider them opposing to yourself?

This usually happens subconsciously, when you disagree with someone for any sort of reason
Or maybe there was no disagreement in the first place, just maybe a misunderstood glance, a misinterpreted word or a gesture, perception of who that person is, so you find yourself not liking that person for no obvious reason, and that feeling of yours starts developing afterward into something that we don't wanna talk about. You end up finding yourself judging that person without even knowing, without spending the time to get to know that person.

So let's take a look at that person forgetting our previous speculations;
Does that person have friends or not?
Does that person seem to spend some fun times with their friends?
Could you be wrong about that person?
Could you have repelled that person by your own pre-assumptions that they are not good enough to be your friend?
Could you have made that person already not like you, if not hate you for treating them in an attacking attitude, or a diffusive attitude?

Can you try to place yourself in their shoes?
Can you take a step back, and try to be nice to that person?
Can you tolerate their attacking, or defending attitude toward you when you start to be nice?
Can you at least be neutral toward that person??

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