Person's Perception

In another interesting conversation, a friend of mine and I were talking about perception and people’s perception and I came up with this:

It’s interesting to think that from person to person we will all react to a situation differently. From you to me to the person down the street we are all inherently different because of our biology, our personal genetic makeup and our social experiences. Even identical twins will experience slightly different situations and therefore be different people for it.

It makes things even more interesting to think of school then. My friend is a math major, I’m a music major. His dreams are actually influenced by math. He sometimes wonders if he’s a little crazy because he sees mathematical patterns in his everyday life, as though the numbers were following him. I told him he’s not because, as a music major, I see musical patterns. I have a musical reference for almost everything. So it’s interesting to think that not only will you as a person have these ideas and ways of understanding or coping with a situation, the education you get will also affect you.

So at the end of the day, even though there may be a thousand people out there experiencing the same thing as you, or seeing the same thing, or what have you, you are the only one who will come up with your particular solution in your particular way. So even if you and someone else come up with the same answer in the vast cosmos, yours and their answer are still different because when analyzed by your brains, you each analyzed them in your own unique way.

In the history of the earth, no single person will solve a problem exactly in your way, simply because even if you went through the same steps and arrived at the same answer, you are not the same person as anyone else.

It doesn’t mean much, but it does help when you wonder what your contribution to the world is. Your contribution is nothing more or less yourself.