“Just when you think you really know something try to look at it from a different angle.” I do not remember where I took this quote from. Neither do I have the knowledge of who came up with it. Anyway, recently it has been a very relevant axiom to what I’ve observed around me.
Have you ever heard or been around some people that spoke with absolute certainty about virtually everything – from ones that are as complex as someone’s character backed by claims of years of relationships or some particular “privileges” to those that are as trivial as celebrities’ news which might have been a part of systematic PR-campaigns? Well, if that doesn’t ring a bell, how about someone who spoke on your behalf because that person felt that he or she knew you inside out? Sometimes, I admired people that demonstrated such conviction. But I really wished they would look at things from a different angle.
I would cringe when I heard people stated something in absolute terms. Because, even if what they say is accepted as “a fact” to the whole inhabitants of this planet but ONE PERSON – that will still not make it ”absolute”.
And when you know the other side of the issue, would you be annoyed or be sympathetic to those persons with misguided or ill-advised absolute? As for me, as much as I believe that all things are relative in this world – I would reflect on the axiom at the introduction of this page – I would try to look at things from their angles.
- A technic called “panning” in photography could make a moving object looks still and the other way around. It’s relative to how we see it.
