#inthought -Observation

ok, I think this blog may be going in the direction past my intentions...but hey its a blog, and I'll just let it go the direction that feels right. As with most things that we do, we act and react to situations based on collective information that we receive from observation.

Observation is something that occurs all the time, we do it intentionally or unintentionally, and its something that we do from the moment we are born. It is through life's experiences that we are shaped by our observations, and eventually those collective observations become part of us. Take for example, learning how to speak. A baby is born without the ability of speech, yet through hundreds and hundreds of days of human interaction and observation a baby learns to speak, and they will speak like whom they have been observing -their observation has become part of them.


Is what we observe the true representation of what we see? or is it based on what we want to see. Are we impervious to occurances that occur right infront of our eyes but independent of our vision? Again my 2 cents...we see something becuase we want to see it, that is, we become part of what we observed in the past to the point where our observation of the present can never be independent of ourselves. What we have here is then conflict caused by these observation: assumptions, social beleifs and conformity are what causes this conflict.

This may sound neither here nor there, but if you carefully read the statements and think about them, you might see this in a different light. To put this into context, I'll put forth an example that can occur and probably does a lot of the time.
When someone presents their view in a discussion, they will most certainly almost always refer to a past event in order to validate their observation as one that is "more" true. They would utter the words "In my experience.." or "back in my day...". The problem with that according to me is that it past observations of a similar subject in the present will give the same perception, but how accurate is it? (given the fast changing and dynamic world that we live in). What has merely happened is that the observer has limited their subject of current observation to the past and therefore will give rise to conflict.

which is probably why adults and teens seem to never get along in some societies (intergenerational gap). Is it probably due to adults' observation that is not independent from self that fails to account for the variables present today. Past events can have similar attributes to present events of the same nature, but they are no way the same, and therefore assuming that acting or reacting in the same way and expecting similar results is truely foolish...but its something we see happen everyday of our lives. What im trying to say here is that close minded observation (that is not free from self) creates conflict by not not observing something in its entirety and is what certainly leads to misintepretation. 

 this is in no way trying to suggest that we shouldnt learn from the past. Then again im not suggesting anything!!

So how would one avoid this conflict? Would it be to separate observation from the self..? and how would one go about that.? perhaps its not possible, or perhaps its what it is to be human, then again, I would say that open mindedness would be one of the ways to avoid conflict. To truely separate emotion from observation, and just as we can never really completely separate emotion from observation, we can never be truely be free from conflict.

but we can go some way in opening our minds to the world around us. What you see is what you get, but if you want to see more, you will get more.