A thought that was coursing through my mind last night like cars on a Nascar race track was Point-of-View. I like to fancy myself as an objective person that is able to remove emotion from a situation, not to hard since I am a guy, and put myself in the other person’s shoes.
I got to thinking that this is a fallacy. That it is not possible to truly see through another persons eyes. That would require you to have the mind, genetics, and experiences of that other person and completely void your own. Even knowing every intimate detail of the other person would still not give an accurate vision of the other person’s thoughts because they would always become muddled with your own.
So does this become a futile attempt or is it like that Christmas present of socks that you get from your parents of “It’s the thought that counts?” It seems to me that trying to add point-of-views to a situation creates more depth. Starting with two points, your personal POV and the situation, and drawing a line between the two. Then adding another point and connecting that to the other two points to create a triangle. Then adding another and another until the geometric shape becomes immeasurable.
There is a friend of mine that I talk with from time to time. The conversations are always extremely interesting because when questions are posted to him, no matter how insignificant it may seem to me, there is always a pause. You can almost see the synaptic relays exploding like fireworks at a 4th of July party behind his eyes. It makes me wonder if he is creating those immeasurable geometric shapes of Point-of-Views before he delivers his well calculated answers.
It is in this pool of thoughts that I find some clarity to Point-of-View or should I say “Alternative-Thought-Processes.” Although I can not fathom what truly goes on in the mind of another person, I can sympathize with the complicated and deep thought process that is put into it. So I pose that removing the emotion from the situation and keeping a logical objective view is not always the best route.