The world you view is more than likely slightly different from the one viewed by your friends and family. You've created your own viewpoint as a result of experiences through which you have been, thus creating your own paradigms about the world around you. These paradigms serve as a basis for future experiences, influencing how you react, influencing your opinions, your morals, and even interactions with people.
However, these paradigms can change as one experiences new things or new information comes to light. (Think of the concept of the world is flat vs the world is round. New information led to a change in understanding). Well, tonight caused me to shift some of my own. Yesterday I found myself upset over an issue with my father that proved to be more based off morals and principle than the actual issue-at-hand. Past experiences and beliefs had set up a paradigm in me that made me react to our discussion poorly. In short, I was actually really upset. And then today, I walk into what I thought was a friend's part to discover that it was actually my surprise graduation party, which my father had been planning for the past 3 weeks. The fact that I was surprised was a supreme understatement, especially because this party and display of love and loyalty didn't fit with my frustration from the previous day. The person with whom I was upset and the person who threw me the party didn't fit into the one paradigm off which I was working.
Thus the shift. In order to understand, reflect, and mesh these two situations together, I needed to shift my paradigm - shift my approach and comprehension of the world around me in order for the two scenarios to coexist in a comprehensible manner in my own view of the world. This specific incident had to do with understanding my own paradigms on family relationships, but these occurrences and paradigm shifts happen constantly and in every facet of life. And they occur because a new experience doesn't fit into the paradigm of the world we have created for ourselves up to that point in our lives.
What sorts of shifts have you experienced and have you been able to rectify them for yourselves?
I think your over-analyzing the wrong way. Okay, so when someone takes in information, its pure info, not tainted by anything, until it reaches the mind. (Sometimes higher level thinking, when it isn't carried out to its full extent can be detrimental cause it leaves you hanging somewhere that's really far from where you've started) Well, when it reaches your mind, you become egocentric and wonder what it has to do with you. For example, if your Dad got into an accident and jammed up his car, you would first soak up that info and then it would reach the "critical thinking" side of the brain. You would remember an experience you had with an accident and know that it was bad because stuff got damaged and damaged stuff made you spend money. Well, you remember that and then you conclude that your Dad or some guy who was driving the other car did something bad. Normal people stop there and reconcile when the other person does something that they perceive to be good. (The concept of love, to the normal person, is not really love. The fake love grows out of the impact, whether bad or good, that a person has in their lives. If that person were to disappear, normal people would get more upset over the fact that their life changed than that the person disappeared. Anyway, I'm off topic.) Normal people just like people because they live with them. If a person really thinks about it, he doesn't blame another person but the circumstances or themselves. They don't look at the things that happened but what caused them to happen. They like people by their personalities.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I've just been rambling. You don't have a view point problem. You just got upset because your father didn't share the same view as you (which you realized was bad based on your past experiences b/c you couldn't live in harmony w/ another person or you had to change your views). You were surprised not really because of your father but b/c of the party that your father planned. You liked the party, therefore, you liked your father. It's not paradigms. It's circumstances. (Wow... I'm a blabbermouth)
interesting take on it, and no, not a blabber mouth. And I think you had some good points. yes, it's circumstances, but circumstances ultimately shape paradigms. Now, granted, I am no expert on paradigms, but I thought the concept interesting enough to explore further.
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