in search of a better truth
/ Think I’ve mentioned this before but having a really hard time seeing things that:
are done a certain way
they’ve been done this way forever…
but it doesn’t feel like it is the best way to do things. How dangerous is “Surely it has been done before” in thinking of doing something new. Or “That’s how it was always done,” okay yes that is fine, but what if things change.
Some balance of naivety (me being wrong) and some creativity (me being right).
Side note—In discussion with another close individual, we were talking about people’s flaws and what are actually really good and really poor qualities. I’ve finally landed that apathy and unreliability are extremely poor qualities to have… really just not caring about things. Somewhere in here is also the quality of “switching up,” but that is another topic intertwined with “not being reliable” or along similar lines. I’m also the first to admit that over my life I’ve had periods of being one or both at the same time (though I have my reasons that I feel justify this, but that is for another day). Alas, I try not to do this anymore and improve on it over time and encourage the one friend I have to not be like this when they lean back into being apathetic. Part of it is organic. You can only fake caring so much, BUT it is possible to inspire curiosity, so if that is possible, that should be encouraged.
This was prompted as I’ve felt there have been things recently that legit don’t make sense.
What is the point of this?
It is about rethinking through things that feel good but aren’t good. Things that seem to mean something but don’t mean anything. Things that sound helpful but don’t help. Things that people thought were cool, that were cool, and people think they are cool, but they aren’t cool anymore.
Also, a realization that life isn’t supposed to make sense all of the time… really it is more of some huge gray area with no defined boundaries.
On a similar note, a very basic area of the world of math and statistics (I’ve explored a bit of the math universe formally but less of the statistics universe) is that what happens to 1 person isn’t as replicable or as common as one thinks. Really prone to recency bias and indexing to prior examples… yet there is value to both! Sometimes you’ll find a situation that actually is a copy and if you have good pattern recognition you can hit the nail on the head! Sometimes things are correlated and move in predictable ways! Sometimes they don’t… c’est la vie.
tl;dr life isn’t supposed to make sense and that is truly ok
Cheers,
Vish
Published on September 28, 2023.