An Interesting Observation

[zoey101]

It's a slow day at work so far. Most interesting thing to happen was that a nursing home across the street caught fire on their roof. No one was hurt, but the whole thing lead me to an interesting observation. I saw the smoke on my way back from lunch. The building is right across the street, so it would be hard NOT to miss it. But when I got back into the office, I had multiple people approach me and ask "did you see the fire?" and each time they would go into detail about "what happened" I got a small variation in story. 

Story 1: "Did you see the fire?!? They had the whole road blocked off. There was a man trapped on the roof with the fire! it was so scary!"

Story 2: "Did you see the fire? I think the AC unit blew, it was just the roof on fire.

Story 3: "Did you see the fire?!? There was so much smoke everywhere! the whole nursing home was on fire!"

It was just interesting to me that I could get three somewhat different stories for the same event. They were all here to see the same thing. I saw some of it for myself. The building was burning just on the roof, and there was someone up there, but he was a fireman. 

It reminded me of an article I read a while back that talked about how humans have adapted into "information based" creatures as technology has adapted to give us information at lightning speed. The theory was that humans "need" to be the ones to share information first. It's like a drug to us. The information, of course, can be relayed back differently depending on the speaker's "worldview perception". But the root goal is the same, individuals feel a need to be the one to share juicy information first. It doesn't matter if they have all the facts, or not. 

I just thought it was a pretty interesting thing to witness first hand.

What do you think?

[magicactualizer]

This is such a profound observation!

To really think about this situation the way that you are, it really required a true practice of mindfulness that not everyone can really relate to. I applaud you for that and am glad that you're sharing. What I think is this: I agree with the notion that humans by nature are designed to have a crave for "juicy" information due to the manifestation of technology coming closer to our lives more than ever. Through your "wouldview perception" theory, that is true when analyzing the way information is carried from one entity to another.

Moreover, to add to your theory, I believe that humans have many different stories that they deem as true. Because it is simple: nothing they ever say or we ever say is ever 100% the truth. Every story we tell about any situation, is only a illustration of OUR truth. Every story we tell is something that is CLOSE to the truth; never the actual complete truth. This reminds me of a reading I did from Mark Manson, as he described this exact concept regarding the concept of truth and the flow of information.

[zoey101]

1 hour ago, magicactualizer said:

This is such a profound observation!

To really think about this situation the way that you are, it really required a true practice of mindfulness that not everyone can really relate to. I applaud you for that and am glad that you're sharing. What I think is this: I agree with the notion that humans by nature are designed to have a crave for "juicy" information due to the manifestation of technology coming closer to our lives more than ever. Through your "wouldview perception" theory, that is true when analyzing the way information is carried from one entity to another.

Moreover, to add to your theory, I believe that humans have many different stories that they deem as true. Because it is simple: nothing they ever say or we ever say is ever 100% the truth. Every story we tell about any situation, is only a illustration of OUR truth. Every story we tell is something that is CLOSE to the truth; never the actual complete truth. This reminds me of a reading I did from Mark Manson, as he described this exact concept regarding the concept of truth and the flow of information.

Thank you for sharing  I was starting to worry I was just a weirdo noticing the most random things lol

It is pretty fascinating though, what all you can learn just by watching people's patterns.