Greetings and Salutations Bright Steemian Multiverse!
In Neuro Linguistic Programing, we have a saying:
The map is not the territory.
More and more as I travel through life, I learn the reality of this principle belief or "presupposition" found within the practice of NLP.
In a nutshell...
People respond to their experiences and not to reality itself. We don't have access to reality as it is, we do not know reality. We experience reality through our senses, our filter systems, our beliefs - our own personal 'map' of reality.
When we look at a map of Chicago, do we see all of Chicago? I think not, The map that we look at only shows a small percentage of what it is that actually rests upon those streets. More so, if we look at a map of Chicago from 1968, do we see the same map, or Chicago that existed then? NO!
Chicago, like us, is ever changing and growing. We are ever unfolding to a new state of being, always transforming. Some, spiral backward, others forward, the only constant force that we can count on until the moment of death, is change.
Also consider, that each persons map is different, just as each persons experience here is different. Just because we may walk down the same street walking side by side, moving in the same direction, does that mean that the things we experience and the way we experience them are identical? I think not, just as although we may have walked down an identical life road, our maps will differ. Knowing this, how can we expect a person who walks down a different path, than us to have an identical map? We can not.
Beautify life by accepting and loving difference. Understand that two persons understanding of a thing is never identical although it may be similar. Two peoples maps will never be the same or identical. Accept their map as being formed in the way that it was for a reason, never criticize it. If we find possible error in function, maybe we can propose an alternate route, however, to create feelings of inferiority just because a map may be different than yours, well that's counter productive.
This is, as I said, a nut-shelled version of a complex topic, please do look into it further, or feel free to comment for further discussion
Until next time!
Bright Blessings!
~Ophiel
