A Good Day Is A Nice Day
Ξ July 28th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Bryan, Bryan And More Bryan |
I really love nice days. Today is stunning. It is not too hot but there’s no wind and the birds are singing. It was beautiful this morning when I went cycling although it was very cold and my hands froze will stop
But whilst I’ve decided that it’s a great day you may not think so. Maybe you’ve decided that it’s a terrible day. Perhaps you’ve had something nasty happen to you today, maybe something terrible. Your day just isn’t working out so that’s how it’s going for you.
It’s all subjective isn’t it? To me it’s a great day, I cant see any reason why it isn’t a great day. But that’s just me isn’t it? For me it’s a great day but for you it may be terrible.
My point is that everything is totally subjective. What is a great day to me seems obvious. It couldn’t be anything but a good day, for me. But that’s only me. I love the day but if you don’t then its a terrible day.
Maybe you see terrible things in the day, all bad, all sad. The best day for me is the worst day for you.
Surely the only explanation is that it’s all in our minds, the day. We see the day through the filter of our own minds. 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 experience.
I even think it’s quite possible that if you and I have the exact same experience of the day we awill see it totally differently. You come for a drive with me and we see different things.
You see all the same cows, the same sunshine, the same people, but maybe you don’t even see them at all. Maybe you see something completely different to me. Your mind registers the same things as mine does, 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 quite different.
Even if you have the same experiences as I do you may well see it totally differently, depending on how it is filtered by your mind. You might drive through the same countryside as me. You might see the sun, the cows, the kids, but your mind may not even register them. Your mind might just be seeing the downside to everything. And thats because your mind filters everything according to past experiences.
What has happened to you in the past is all recorded in your brain and it tempers every future experience. So even though you’re seeing the same sunshine, cows and kids as I am seeing your past experiences are different from mine and so your mind uses the past to filter what you’re seeing right now.